Jak mówić i czytać o Zagładzie? Metodyczne wątpliwości polonisty

Abstract

The author of the article considers the opportunities of talking about the Holocaust during Polish literature and culture lessons. She expresses her concern that discussing the Holocaust at school often boils down to selecting some aesthetics intensified by not thoroughly well-thought-of methodological instructions. The author proposes the teaching about the Holocaust during Polish literature lessons to be not only an act of passing the knowledge but most of all sharing it – not in the form of coherent vision and ready answers but a crisis and silence. It seems that Polish literature and culture code is helpless, as it teaches mastering and comprehending culture texts, appropriateness and form, whereas the Holocaust is a history of trauma, history of the lack of control, the lack of command.