Polish film and the Holocaust : politics and memory / Marek Haltof.

During World War II, Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by the Nazis in Polish-occupied territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and doe...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Haltof, Marek
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Series:Latin America studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Postwar Poland: geopolitics and cinema
  • Wanda Jakubowska's return to Auschwitz: the last stage
  • Commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Border Street
  • Images of the Holocaust during the Polish School period (1955-1965)
  • Years of organized forgetting (1965-1980)
  • Return of the repressed: "The poor Poles look at the ghetto" (1981- )
  • Andrzej Wajda responds: Korczak (1990) and holy week
  • Documentary archaeology of the Holocaust and Polish-Jewish past
  • Afterword.