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Discussing the Holocaust in Contemporary Poland
Stanisław Krajewski
redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl Author Biographyprofesor w Instytucie Filozofii UW, współprzewodniczący Polskiej Rady Chrześcijan i Żydów, współpracownik powstającego Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich, zajmuje się logiką matematyczną, dialogiem międzyreligijnym, doświadczeniami Żydów polskich; wśród niedawnych publikacji książkowych jest Tajemnica Izraela a tajemnica Kościoła (Warszawa 2007), oraz zredagowany wspólnie z A. Lipszycem zbiór tekstów Abraham Joshua Heschel: Philosophy, Theology and Interreligious Dialogue (Wiesbaden 2009).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1142-8112
Department of Philosophy, Warsaw University
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 5 (2009), Pages: 317-324
Submission Date: 2020-10-16Publication Date: 2009-11-09
https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.319
Abstract
Discussion of the Holocaust is often obscured by the story of a resistance heroism. It is illustrated by Rapoport’s Warsaw monument of Warsaw Ghetto Heroes. That there are no words suitable for a discussion about the Holocaust reality is becoming evident when we speak about the purpose of the ghetto uprising. The Warsaw ghetto victims should be revered regardless of the uprising and be given voice in order to place the innocent victims in the central position. On the monument in Birkenau the inscription, concerning „the Auschwitz heroes”, says that they fought “for human freedom and dignity, for peace and brotherhood of nations.” Such words in a place where more than a million Jews who did not fight were gassed, are totally inadequate, even insulting. The recent history of the term “Holocaust” (its spread and acquisition of more profound sense, its abuse and attempts to appropriate it) is an example of the significance of Jewish fate for global civilization. The most tragic fragment of the recent Jewish history received a ennobling name. We can say that it is a story of another Jewish “success.”
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