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The memory politics of Cursed Soldiers, antisemitism and racialisation
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 1289-1303, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper examines the relationship between racism and the memory politics of the anti‐communist underground in Poland. It explores a covert antisemitism behind the conservative nationalist hegemonic project of transforming the anti‐communist underground into the ideologically charged symbol of the Cursed Soldiers.
Krzysztof Jaskulowski, Piotr Majewski
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American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 419-430, August 2023., 2023 Abstract When Czechs consider their involvement in the global colonial system, they usually imagine themselves as the victims of Soviet imperial power. This is the case among those Czech anthropologists whose research under state socialism was tightly circumscribed.
Ema Hrešanová
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When and why moral exemplars fail to motivate intergroup reconciliation
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 51-71, Fall 2023., 2023 Abstract The present study examines the effectiveness of moral‐exemplar interventions in the context of recurring oppression and historical trauma. Moral exemplars are individuals who have risked important aspects of their lives to save the lives of members of other social groups.
Zsolt Péter Szabó +2 more
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Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 167-179, June 2023., 2023 Abstract When Holocaust survivor Anna Langfus (1920–1966) left Poland for France in 1946, she broke all ties with her home country. French became her language of choice for the three novels she published between 1960 and 1965, and she never used Polish at home nor taught it to her only daughter.
France Grenaudier‐Klijn
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GOVERNING MIGRATION THROUGH SMALL TOWNS: Dispersal and the Production of Spaces of Transit
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 349-367, May 2023., 2023 Abstract Based on qualitative long‐term fieldwork conducted in a peripherally located small town in East Germany, this article compares the dispersal of repatriates from the former Soviet Union with that of recent refugee arrivals. It shows that in this small town the dispersal and local governance of refugees builds on previous approaches to dealing ...
Rene Kreichauf
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“You gotta give them hope”: A structural psychobiography of Harvey Milk (1930–1978)
Journal of Personality, Volume 91, Issue 1, Page 105-119, February 2023., 2023 Abstract Objective In this psychobiographical study, we examined the life and times of social change agent Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay public officials in the United States. Milk is remembered as a gay hero who fought for the rights of marginalized people, often by invoking the importance of hope.
Nic M. Weststrate, Kate C. McLean
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Życie i Zagłada w Hrubieszowie w oczach młodej warszawianki
Zagłada Żydów, 2007 This text deals with the situation of the Jewish population of Hrubieszów between autumn 1941 and the first deportation action in June 1942. The author of the testimony is a woman by the name Dychterman, who came to Hrubieszów from the Warsaw ghetto ...
Dariusz Libionka, Adam Kopciowski
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The non- -existent wall? The problem of describing Muranów
Przestrzenie Teorii, 2015 The article presents the problem of recovering the memory of the Warsaw district of Muranów, the site of the WW2 ghetto in recent literature. Referring to one of the first works devoted to this subject (Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s Umschlagplatz), the ...
Beata Przymuszała
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Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2022 This article analyses the work of Herman Czerwiński as a leading theater critic of Gazeta Żydowska (Jewish Gazette), published by Jewish journalists under the control of the Nazis in 1940–1942 in the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region. To
Agata Dąbrowska, Jakub Parnes
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Notes by Jan Górnicki (Ber Oszer Weisbaum)
Zagłada Żydów, 2013 Jan Górnicki’s notes, written in May 1945, concern the days of the great deportation action in the Warsaw ghetto in July 1042. He was a young boy then, living with his mother and trying to earn some money riding a rickshaw.
Barbara Engelking
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