Obserwatorzy uczestniczący zamiast świadków i rama zamiast obrzeży. O nowe kategorie opisu polskiego kontekstu Zagłady
Participant-Observers Instead of Witnesses and the Framework Instead of the Fringes: New Concepts in the Description of the Holocaust in the Polish Context

Summary/Abstract: Notions such as “the Holocaust framework” and “participant-observers” are polemical in the context of existing descriptions of the Polish Holocaust, which include terms such as the fringes of the Holocaust and bystanders, whether bystanders are understood as witnesses, onlookers, spectators or gawkers. The social and cultural validity of anti-Semitism has made it possible to portray the Polish context of the Holocaust as a panoptical reality and to describe the vast majority as a disciplinary society of participating observers. The concept of “the Holocaust framework” dates the influence of the majority group on the fate of Jews from the beginning of the occupation and in a continuum with pre-war attitudes, discourses and practices. Janicka explains how existing socio-cultural conditions were able to determine the effectiveness of the Holocaust in occupied Poland.

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