Post‑monumentalne miejsca pamięci jako aktywne narzędzia doświadczenia (post)holocaustowego i (post)pamięci
Post-Monumental Places of Memory as Active Tools in (Post-)Holocaust and (Post-)Memory Experiences

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to answer to the question of how best to commemorate the Holocaust in the post-memory era. One possible answer is to create temporary post-monuments which require engagement only from viewers who want and need it. The post-monument relates to cultural, social, and also individual memory. It commemorates forgotten places and individual experiences, encouraging dialogue among viewers. Engaging viewers and inviting them to reconstruct history is one way that the trauma of past generations can be commemorated by contemporary generations. In order for history to remain vibrant, and its message to have a performative function, its memory must live on through successive generations. The temporary nature of the post-monument allows it not only to commemorate, but also to thematize the process of memory erasure over time. In the article, the above observations are presented in reference to the theory of memory, the philosophy of postmodernism, the idea of homo holocaustus, in order to compare the post-monument to more traditional forms of commemoration alongside selected examples of post-monuments.

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