Feeling (for) Kraków’s Traumatic Past: The 2010s

Gryta, Janek

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Feeling (for) Kraków’s Traumatic Past: The 2010s

Janek Gryta²

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This chapter analyses the glocal memorial competition over the shape of the Memory Trail, a set of exhibitions narrating the whole of wartime history of Kraków. The exhibitions at Schindler’s Factory and the Eagle Pharmacy, unveiled respectively in 2010 and 2013, were created by local curators working both in cooperation and in competition with global experts, national historians and local politicians. The effect of their work was a set of multisensory exhibitions that allowed the visitor to travel back in time, feel the past realties and feel for the suffering of Krakowians. While embracing cosmopolitan values in their treatment of the Jewish topics, the new exhibitions, particularly the Factory one, also re-established the Germans as the Threatening Other of the Polish nation.

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Notes

1.
“Museum Trails.”
2.
Meng, Shattered Spaces, 74.
3.
Marszałek and Bednarek, Fabryka, 7.
4.
Levy and Sznaider, The Holocaust, 4.
5.
Levy and Sznaider, The Holocaust, 10.
6.
Marszałek and Bednarek, Fabryka, 1; Pióro, Apteka, 1.
7.
Krzysztof Zamorski (The Council of the MHK), Personal communication with the author, June 28, 2014.
8.
“Ustawa o muzeach;” “Ustawa o organizowaniu i prowadzeniu działalności kulturalnej;” AMHK, “Regulamin.”
9.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2007,” Sig. 602/1, fols, 189–191, AMHK, “Apteka, 2011–2013,” Sig., AO-520.
10.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2007,” Sig. 602/1, fols, 157 and 187.
11.
Ibid., fols. 141, and 143.
12.
AMHK, “Apteka, 2011–2013,” Sig., AO-520.
13.
AMHK, “Wystawa stała „Kraków – czas okupacji 1939–1945“ (Scenariusz wystawy), 2008–09,” Sig. 603/4, fol. 7.
14.
Browning, Ordinary Men.
15.
Chwalba, Kraków, 41–82.
16.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2007,” Sig. 602/1, fol. 11.
17.
Guibernau, Identity, 161.
18.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2007,” Sig. 602/1, fol. 11.
19.
AMHK, “Kraków – czas okupacji 1939–1945,” Sig. 603/4, fol. 7.
20.
AMHK, “Kraków – czas okupacji 1939–1945,” Sig. 603/4, fol. 7.
21.
AMHK, “Kraków – czas okupacji 1939–1945,” Sig. 603/4, fol. 7.
22.
Ibid., fol. 655.
23.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2008,” Sig. 603/2, fol. 109.
24.
Bogumił, Walka, 157.
25.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2009,” Sig. 603/3, fol. 109.
26.
Grabowski, “The Holocaust,” 19.
27.
Nijakowski, Polska, 190, see also Ochman, Post-Communist Poland.
28.
“Tomasz Bobrowski”.
29.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2008,” Sig. 603/2, fol. 139.
30.
Ibid., fol. 107.
31.
Ibid., fols. 141–143, AMHK, “Apteka, 2011–2013,” Sig., AO-520.
32.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2008,” Sig. 603/2, fol. 549.
33.
Törnquist-Plewa, “Local Memories,” 218.
34.
Törnquist-Plewa, “Local Memories,” 218.
35.
AMHK, “Kraków – czas okupacji 1939–1945,” Sig. 603/4, fol. 7.
36.
Jones, The Media, 41–43.
37.
Lehrer, “Public Pedagogy,” 203.
38.
AMHK, “Kraków – czas okupacji 1939–1945,” Sig. 603/4, fols. 7–37.
39.
Ibid., fol. 7.
40.
Ibid., fols. 7–37.
41.
Marszałek and Bednarek, Fabryka, 9–31.
42.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2007,” Sig. 602/1, fol. 99.
43.
AMHK, “Apteka, Scenariusz.”
44.
Ibid.
45.
Ibid.
46.
AMHK, “Kraków – czas okupacji 1939–1945,” Sig. 603/4, fol. 77–79.
47.
AMHK, “Apteka, Scenariusz.”
48.
Pióro, Apteka, 15.
49.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2007,” Sig. 602/1, fol. 99.
50.
AMHK, “Kraków – czas okupacji 1939–1945,” Sig. 603/4.
51.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, The Museum as Catalys, 5.
52.
AMHK, “Apteka, Scenariusz.”
53.
AMHK, “Kraków – czas okupacji 1939–1945,” Sig. 603/4, fol. 145.
54.
Jones, Memory, 196.
55.
AMHK, “Apteka, Scenariusz.”.
56.
AMHK, “Kraków – czas okupacji 1939–1945,” Sig. 603/4, fol. 69.
57.
Marszalek and Bednarek, Fabryka, 32.
58.
Ibid., 30.
59.
Ziębińska-Witek, Kicz i Holocaust, 81.
60.
Ziębińska-Witek, Historia, 162.
61.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2008,” Sig. 603/2, fol. 549.
62.
Ibid., fol. 601.
63.
Boym, The Future, xiv.
64.
Winter, “Human Rights,” 49.
65.
Beck, “The Cosmopolitan,” 81.
66.
Jones, Memory, 195.
67.
Selwyn, “Introduction,” 21.
68.
Bauman, Legislators and Interpreters, 4.
69.
Lindholm, Culture, 1.
70.
Chronis and Hampton, “Consuming,” 114.
71.
Lindholm, Culture, 47.
72.
Landsberg, Prosthetic Memory, 2.
73.
Jones, The Media, 43.
74.
Jones, The Media, 43.
75.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2008,” Sig. 603/2, fol. 629.
76.
For a similar interpretation of the war atrocities, see Snyder, Bloodlands.
77.
Beck and Sznaider, “Unpacking,” 3 and 6.
78.
Nowak, „Świnie,“ 216–224.
79.
AMHK, “Apteka, 2011–2013,” Sig., AO-520.
80.
AMHK, “Apteka, Scenariusz.”
81.
Marszałek and Bednarek, Fabryka, 10.
82.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2008,” Sig. 603/2, fols. 629–639.
83.
Levy and Sznaider, “Memory Unbound,” 103.
84.
Guibernau, Identity, 161.
85.
AMHK, “Korespondencja, 2008,” Sig. 603/2, fol. 629.
86.
Ringelheim, “The Holocaust,” 22.
87.
AMHK, “Apteka, Scenariusz.”
88.
Hedgepeth and Saidel, “Intorduction,” 3–4.
89.
Guibernau, Identity, 161.
90.
Ziębińska-Witek, Historia, 194.
91.
Marszałek and Bednarek, Fabryka, 40.
92.
Ibid., p. 40.
93.
Nowak, Świnie, see also Salwiński, “The Memory,” 150.
94.
Guibernau, Identity, 161.

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Gryta, J. (2020). Feeling (for) Kraków’s Traumatic Past: The 2010s. In: Jews and Poles in the Holocaust Exhibitions of Kraków, 1980–2013. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38979-6_4

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