Eksterminacja przyrody w Lesie Rzuchowskim
Nature’s Extermination in the Rzuchowski Forest

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines how Nazi extermination procedures at the Chełmno Death Camp are ecologically related to the devastation of the local forest ecosystem. Smykowski explores the ecocide and subsequent attempts to restitute vegetation. His study is based on a memoire by German forester Heinz May, in charge of providing wood to fire the crematories and of concealing the mass graves with tree seedlings. The methodology and theoretical apparatus of relational ontology portray the post-Holocaust landscape as a result of interfering processes, both anthropogenic (anthropopressure, reclamation, aestheticization) and natural (secondary succession). Smykowski’s approach shows the landscape of the Rzuchowski Forest as an example of an ecoheritage.

• Details
• Contents