Responses to the Holocaust in Polish and Yiddish literature

The development of literature in Polish and Yiddish was drastically impaired by World War II, which brought about the destruction of numerous cultural institutions and the deaths of many writers. Another important direct consequence is the revision of many communist writers' negative attitudes towards the Jewish world that was annihilated. Compared to western literature there are few fictionalized works on the Holocaust in either Polish or Yiddish literature