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Disgrace and torment: the Holocaust in Zofia Nalkowska's 'Medallions'
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Disgrace and torment: the Holocaust in Zofia Nalkowska's 'Medallions'
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318072/0062
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]08949f
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Newark, Delaware, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]University of Delaware Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2014
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp105-125
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780611490565
NotesArticle from the book 'National responses to the Holocaust: national identity and public memory' pp 105-125
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
In this essay the author investigates the contradictions in Polish cultural memory in an analysis of 'Medallions', the 1946 memoir of poet Zofia Malkowski. The overarching theme of the collection was the exploration of the human capacity for for evil as a pressing ethical enterprise. She was among the first writers to challenge her compatriots to recognize thier problematic roles as bystanders, vitims and victimizers. Her critical goal was to prompt her Polish readers to confront their complicity and accept their share of the guilt.
