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- Title
PAMIĘĆ GETTA WARSZAWSKIEGO W OPOWIADANIACH "CZARNE SEZONY MICHAŁA GŁOWIŃSKIEGO".
- Authors
Bukwalt, Miłosz
- Abstract
Michał Głowiński's autobiographical prose participates in the creation of a body of texts devoted to the Holocaust of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Collections of impressions and stories titled "Czarne sezony" (Black Seasons) brings knowledge about the dramatic realities of life in a world surrounded by walls. Yet, the traumatic images encoded in the autobiographical memory are fragmentary and incomplete. The author draws attention to the chaotic topography of the Ghetto, which - due to the narrowness, labyrinthine arrangement of streets as well as the marking of solid elements of space - brings to mind the undifferentiated area of hell on Earth. An important place in the abovementioned works is also the reflection on the subject of mass death (including suicidal deaths) from hunger or by shooting, stripped of dignity and intimacy. The Author also devotes a separate place to of the categories of temporary and transitive ghetto flats and hideout basements, which contradict the idea of home as a tame and safe space. Głowiński also directs his attention to all objects that lose all nostalgic or sentimental value in the world hidden behind walls. An important place in the Author's memories is dedicated to the barbaric act of liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto as well as reflection on the fate of people who avoided deportation and death in the gas chambers of the Treblinka Contenctration Camp. For the purposes of scientific analysis of the categories and problems mentioned above, a conceptual apparatus was used in the field of cultural anthropology, anthropanatology, suicidology, victimology and the theory of the Holocaust.
- Subjects
WARSAW (Poland); AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL memory; ETHNOLOGY; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945; GAS chambers; PERSECUTION of Jews; JEWS; JEWISH children
- Publication
Nasleđe, 2019, Issue 44, p203
- ISSN
1820-1768
- Publication type
Article