„Ten nie jest z ojczyzny mojej...". Polacy i Żydzi w zwierciadle Holocaustu

Abstract

In Polish social awareness, the extermination of Jews during the second world war and its circumstances has long after the war been treated as a taboo topic, not only due to censorship. The Polish assistance was idealised (the example of Ten nie jest z ojczyzny mojej / This one is not from my homeland by Władysław Bartoszewski and Zofia Lewinówna), whereas a darker side of the experience, which became part of Polish social history, was ignored and removed from memory. In some cases, it was co-operation of Polish witnesses of “Extermination” with German slaughterers in the act of Holocaust. The Polish literature created not only by Polish writers of Jewish origin described that experience; however the contemporary literary criticism and history of literature have not devoted too much attention to the phenomenon. The texts by Hanna Krall, Henryk Grynberg, Stanisław Wygodzki, Artur Sandauer, Adolf Rudnicki, Krystyna Żywulska, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Jerzy Andrzejewski and Andrzej Szczypiorski, among others, treat the problems in the way, which is very remote from positive stereotypes and they constitute a kind of group accusation.