Café Zelig: A Seniors’ Hangout and a Whole Lot of History
Tanja Cummings’ Line 41: A Reflection
Des « origines » du « devoir de mémoire » aux sources de la mémoire de la Shoah : historiciser la mémoire de son oubli
L’article présente un parcours de recherche consacré à l’histoire de l’expression « devoir de mémoire » qui a bifurqué, suite à la découverte inattendue de sources de la première mémoire de la shoah. Réfutant un schème historiographique dominant centré sur l’oubli, ces sources ont mené vers une double historicisation : d’un côté, celle de la mémoir...
Ślady społeczności żydowskiej w Gniewoszowie. Perspektywa archeologii współczesności / Traces of the Jewish community in...
The aim of the article is to present the results of preliminary research carried out in Gniewoszów and its vicinity (province Mazovia, commune Gniewoszów). The purpose of the research was to identify material traces left over there after the life and extermination of the Jewish community. Indirectly, the article covers an attempt to open a discussi...
Wellbeing and national identity in three generations of Czech and Slovak Holocaust survivors
Published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjective wellbeing (SWB) is an important factor of global adjustment. Intergenerational satisfaction in seriously traumatized people has not been studied so far in homogenous populations of Central and Eastern Europe. This study focuses on the SWB in three generations of survivors living in the Czech Republic and Slovakia after World War II (WWII...
Verschlossen, verwechselt, verlegt, verbrannt
Published in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
Die Weihnachtsansprache von 1942 gilt als der einzige Text, in dem sich Papst Pius XII. öffentlich zum Holocaust geäußert hat. Nach der Öffnung der vatikanischen Archive im März 2020 ist es möglich, die mehrstufige Textgenese vom ersten deutschen Entwurf aus der Feder des Sozialethikers Gustav Gundlach bis zur gedruckten italienischen Endfassung na...
Secret Rooms, Locked Doors and Hidden Stories: Retelling “Bluebeard” as a Holocaust Narrative in Michèle Roberts’s "Igno...
One of the most grisly European fairy tales, “Bluebeard” is also a story that has proved immensely productive, spawning numerous variants, adaptations and rewritings. This essay offers a reading of Michèle Roberts’s Ignorance (2012) as one such retelling. Roberts employs “Bluebeard” to construct a story that utilises the format of a dual coming-of-...
In the Captivity of the Present. Approaches to Son of Saul by László Nemes Jeles
Published in Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies
Son of Saul, the Hungarian director, László Nemes Jeles’s film about Holocaust was released in 2015 with great international success: Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival, the Academy Award and Golden Globe for best foreign-language film. In my essay, I approach the film from a variety of perspectives. First, by analysing the visual and aural lev...
Horn, Dara. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2021.
Review of Horn, Dara. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2021.
Women and Witnesses Twice Silenced: Giving a Voice to Holocaust Complicity and Resistance
Women’s voices had no place in the Third Reich, and the Christian churches agreed: a woman’s place was in the kitchen. After the war, women’s voices frankly discussed the churches’ shame. Some Christians had colluded, others stood silently by, and some of those who resisted the persecution of Jewish converts did not fully understand the injustice a...
