After Bereza. Polish literature towards the Confinement Centre in Bereza Kartuska. 1939–2018
After Bereza. Polish literature towards the Confinement Centre in Bereza Kartuska. 1939–2018

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the inclusion in the broadly understood Polish literature of the theme and motif of the Confinement Centre in Bereza Kartuska (1934–1939). I discussed in it the formation of the image of the concentration camp since it ceased its operation (in 1939), mainly defined by ideology and politics, including the politics of memory. I particularly focussed on works of literature regarding the Confinement Centre created after the Centre ceased its operations. Those include both recollections, mainly by communists (e.g. by Michał Mirski and Jan Wojcik), and works of fiction, including the short story Jestem by Leon Pasternak, the play Bereziacy by Karol Obidniak and Roman Sykała, and novels: Wzbierająca fala by Czesław K. Domagała, Krol by Szczepan Twardoch, and Szakale by Robert Żołtek.

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