Re-presenting the Shoah in Poland and Poland in the Shoah

In 1939, at the outbreak of World War II Poland's estimated 3.5 million Jews comprised the largest Jewish population in Europe. Prose writers and poets did write about the Shoah during and immediately after the war. By 1950 the subject seemed to evaporate.There were specifically Polish motives for under- or non representation of the Shoah. What ultimately brought it to the forefront was the 1986 eruption of the Carmelite convent controversy at Auschwitz and the showing of Lanzmann's 'Shoah'