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The Traces of the Holocaust in Tadeusz Różewicz’s writings
Krzysztof Lichtblau
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In his later writings, Tadeusz Różewicz ponders what remains of the Holocaust victims. We turn around objects that seem to overlap the personalised experience of the witnesses. All these had been additionally filtered by people’s fragmentary memory. What is a knife of Mieczysław Porębski, the gate to Auschwitz or the train? Popular culture often uses only catchword for the Holocaust, though Różewicz in his works shows the widening of the semantic field of these objects. Extermination is an experience and cannot be hit by cabinets and remain only an exhibit. The short story “Tour to the Museum” seems to be a tragic prophecy.
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Holocaust, memories, history, witness accounts, personal belongings, Mieczysław Porębski, AuschwitzMost read articles by the same author(s)
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