Domesticating the difficult past: Polish students narrate the Second World War

Examines the ways in which Polish students narrated WWII. By analysing 53 students' narratives, they were grouped into 3 main categories: ruin, resistance and victimhood, which generally reflect Poland's broader national narrative on the Holocaust. Finds that a few students produced a counter-narrative which not only better reflects the reality of the Holocaust in WWII Poland, but also produces an opportunity for teachers who can use these counter-narratives to break down well accepted versions of the Holocaust past.