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Katherine A. Lebow: "Human, Living Document!" – Polish Sociological Traditions and the Jewish Historical Commissions in Poland, 1944-49
   

Donnerstag, 6. März 2014, 12:00 - 14:30

Seminarraum 1, Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien Spitalgasse 2-4/Hof 1, 1090 Wien

 

VWI goes to the University of Vienna

 

One of the most remarkable responses by Holocaust survivors to the Shoah was the urge to collect testimony. Almost as soon as the Nazi threat had passed, survivors in cities and camps across Europe formed historical commissions whose central mandate was to gather eye-witness accounts of Jewish suffering and persecution. And yet, the urgency with which some survivors pursued this testimonial project, as valuable and obvious as it may seem today, was neither inevitable nor universal. The fact that Polish Jews, for example, were at the forefront of such efforts in the mid- to late-1940s should be understood as a reflection of particular circumstances that included the intellectual and cultural legacies of the Polish Second Republic (1918-1939). This lecture will explore how pre-war Polish sociological traditions, on the one hand, and a public discourse of "social memoir," on the other, left an enduring imprint on Polish Jewish survivors, shaping the methods and assumptions with which historical commissions approached the meaning and practice of testimony.


Moderation and comments by Johanna Gehmacher

 

Katherine A. Lebow is Research Fellow at the VWI.

 

Johanna Gehmacher is Head of the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.

 

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