Znak, ideologia, zapomnienie. Uwagi o grobie upamiętniajacym zagładę Żydów w lesie Niesłusz-Rudzica
Sign, Ideology, Forgetting. Remarks on Place of Memory of Jewish Extermination in Niesłusz-Rudzica Forest

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to the different dimensions and forms of commemorating of Jewish extermination in the Niesłusz-Rudzica Forest. In 1941 around 1500 Jews were put to death there. In 1944 the excavated corpses were burnt. In 20th century, in the 70s, a grave was erected there, on which an inscription was put, and in the 90s in the same place a second inscription was placed. Not far away from the grave the information about the 1944 incident was located the on the pedestal. Another monument was erected in the depth of the forest. The article discusses the inscriptions, two found on the grave and the one fixed on the pedestal nearby. Another inscription is also referred to, namely the one which commemorates the Jews murdered in forced labour concentration camp in Czarków, preserved on a cemetery grave in the town of Konin. The author of the article discusses the places of memory, allowing for the cultural-political changes which influenced the memory of the murdered.

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