Katarzyna Person
Historian, deputy director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum
Katarzyna Person has published extensively on the history of Jews in Poland during the Holocaust and in the immediate post-war period and is the author of among others: Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation (Cornell University Press in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem, 2021), Przemysłowa Concntration Camp. The Camp. The Children. The Trials (with Johannes-Dieter Steinert; Palgrave Macmillan 2023).
She is the author and co-author of five volumes of documents from the Ringelblum. Archive and lads the full edition of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
She is the author and co-author of five volumes of documents from the Ringelblum. Archive and lads the full edition of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Seeing and not-seeing. The Holocaust in Poland
My paper will look at the postwar research on "difficult" and "inappropriate" responses of victims and bystanders to the atrocities of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. I will discuss how responses that fall outside the "canon of suffering" were discussed both by the survivors themselves, by scholars and by the community (both Jewish and not-Jewish) and how and why they were silenced, and (and often remain silenced) to this day. Finally, I will look at what happens when this silence ends and actions which for many years were part of the "secret and communal" memory cross into the sphere of public discussion.
Katarzyna Person
Historian, deputy director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum
Katarzyna Person has published extensively on the history of Jews in Poland during the Holocaust and in the immediate post-war period and is the author of among others: Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation (Cornell University Press in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem, 2021), Przemysłowa Concntration Camp. The Camp. The Children. The Trials (with Johannes-Dieter Steinert; Palgrave Macmillan 2023).
She is the author and co-author of five volumes of documents from the Ringelblum. Archive and lads the full edition of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
She is the author and co-author of five volumes of documents from the Ringelblum. Archive and lads the full edition of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Seeing and not-seeing. The Holocaust in Poland
My paper will look at the postwar research on "difficult" and "inappropriate" responses of victims and bystanders to the atrocities of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. I will discuss how responses that fall outside the "canon of suffering" were discussed both by the survivors themselves, by scholars and by the community (both Jewish and not-Jewish) and how and why they were silenced, and (and often remain silenced) to this day. Finally, I will look at what happens when this silence ends and actions which for many years were part of the "secret and communal" memory cross into the sphere of public discussion.