Overview
- Explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland’s 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War
- Shows that 2001 marked a caesura in Poland’s post-Communist history, as this was when the past took center stage in Polish political life
- Argues that during this period a distinct culture of commemoration emerged in Poland
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“Thoroughly researched, Stańczyk’s book provides excellent surveys of the history of the Łodź camp for Polish Christian juvenile offenders, the Warsaw Uprising, the Majdanek camp and the Gdańsk Kindertransport which can be used as precious educational tools for students of Holocaust studies and East/Central European history.” (Dana Mihăilescu, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 98 (2), April, 2020)
“Stańczyk’s book can be read as a general introduction to present-day Polish culture, skillfully sketching recent trends and tensions. In this view, Polish remembrance becomes a touchstone of the contemporary cultural processes of the post-communist state, and the author’s informative accounts of contemporary Polish debates support this possible reading. ... Stańczyk’s expert diagnosis of memory culture, rooted in observations of local projects, discussions, and activities, naturally provokes questions concerning memory activism.” (Maria Kobielska, hsozkult.de, 2021)“In each chapter, the author reviews a selected case study in a novel, thought-provoking manner combining very productive ethnographic methods and memory studies. Importantly, Stańczyk offers a fresh perspective on the war not just by applying a new method, but also by touching upon subjects that are relatively unexplored in (particularly non-Polish) historiography. ... Here is a publication which provides an essential point of reference for the increasingly popular studies of wartime experience and children’s memory.” (Lidia Zessin-Jurek, Acta Poloniae Historica 122, 2020)
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Book Title: Commemorating the Children of World War II in Poland
Book Subtitle: Combative Remembrance
Authors: Ewa Stańczyk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32262-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32261-8Published: 13 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32264-9Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32262-5Published: 02 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 175
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Social History, Memory Studies, Childhood, Adolescence and Society