| dc.description.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. | en_EN |
