Abstract
This chapter analyzes the practices of the Brama Grodzka group in Lublin, Poland. Brama Grodzka uses its physical location in the gateway over the road connecting the historically Jewish Quarter to Lublin’s Old City as the material expression of its mission: to change Lubliners’ conscious awareness of what the city’s Jewish past means for Polish national identity. Brama Grodzka created a series of performative strategies that allowed participants to interact with the erasure of Lublin’s Jewish community, broaching the possibility of rupture with a normalized mono-ethnic present. In their work, Brama Grodzka staff positioned the city itself as carrying the trauma of the Nazi excision of Jewish life, and the Polish suppression of its memory.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences
Bernhard, Michael. 1996. Civil Society After the First Transition: Dilemmas of Post-Communist Democratization in Poland and Beyond. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 29 (3): 309–330.
Blobaum, Robert (ed.). 2005. Anti-Semitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Boniecki, Adam. 2001. Jedna ziemia, dwie świątynie. Tygodnik Powszechny, Oct 1.
Engelking, Barbara. 2011. Murdering and Denouncing Jews in the Polish Countryside, 1942–1945. East European Politics & Societies 25: 433–456.
Fleming, Michael. 2010. Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944–50. New York: Routledge.
Gruber, Ruth. 2002. Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hagen, William. 1996. Before the ‘Final Solution’: Toward a Comparative Analysis of Political Anti-Semitism in Interwar Germany and Poland. Journal of Modern History 68 (2): 351–381.
Irwin-Zarecka, Irena. 1989. Neutralizing Memory: The Jew in Contemporary Poland. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
Józefczuk, Grzegorz, and Grzegorz Praczyk. 2000. Od ciszy do nadziei. Gazeta Wyborcza (Lublin edition), 18 October: 6.
Kopciowski, Adam. 2008. Anti-Jewish Incidents in the Lublin Region in the Early Years After World War II. Holocaust Studies and Materials 2008: 177–205.
Kopciowski, Adam. 2011. Zarys dziejów Żydów na Lubelszczyźnie. In Śladami Żydów: Lubelszczyzna, ed. Marta Kubiszyn, 18. Lublin: Stowarzyszenie Panorama Kultur.
Kubiszyn, Marta. 2000. Portret Ulic. Karta 31: 16–39.
Kubiszyn, Marta. 2011. Śladami Żydów: Lubelszczyzna. Lublin: Stowarzyszenie Panorama Kultur.
Marszalek, Jan. 1995. Żydzi warszawscy w Lublinie i na Lubelszczyźnie w latach 1940–1944. In Żydzi w Lublinie: Materiały do dziejów społeczności żydowskiej Lublina, ed. Tadeusz Radzik, 257–271. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłokowskiej.
Michlic-Cohen, Joanna. 2000. Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1918–1939 and 1945–1947. In Polin, Studies in Polish Jewry: Focusing on the Holocaust and its Aftermath, ed. A. Polonsky. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.
Musial, Bogdan. 1999. Deutsche Zivilverwaltung und Judenverfolgung im Generalgouvernement: Eine Fallstudie zum Distrikt Lublin 1939–1944. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Nagroda Giedroycia dla Pietrasiewicza. 2011. Rzeczpospolita, 11 Nov 2011.
Panas, Władysław. 2007. Brama. Roczniki Humanistyczne 01: 237–247.
Phelan, Peggy. 1993. Unmarked: The Politics of Performance. New York: Routledge.
Phelan, Peggy. 1997. Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories. New York: Routledge.
Pietrasiewicz, Tomasz. 2002. Interview by author. Tape recording. Lublin, Poland.
Pietrasiewicz, Tomasz. 2008. Brama Grodzka - kręgi pamięci = The Grodzka Gate–circles of memory. Lublin: Ośrodek Brama Grodzka - Teatr NN.
Pohl, Dieter. 1993. Von der ‘Judenpolitik’ zum Judenmord: der Distrikt Lublin des Generalgouvernements, 1934–1944. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Porter, Brian. 2000. When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland. New York: Oxford University Press.
Radzik, Tadeusz (ed.). 1995. Żydzi W Lublinie: Materiały do dziejów społeczności żydowskiej Lublina. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłowdowskiej.
Radzik, Tadeusz. 2007. Zagłada lubelskiego getta. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej.
Rezler-Wasielewska, Violetta and Marta Grudzińska. 2008. Lublin, Lipowa 7- Obóz dla Żydów-polskich jeńców wojenny (1940–1943). Kwartalnik Historii Żydów 4: 490–514.
Scheffler, Wolfgang. (n.d.). The Forgotten Part of the ‘Final Solution’: The Liquidation of the Ghettos. Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual, Volume 2. Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, CA. Available at www.museumoftolerance.com.
Silverman, Kaja. 1983. The Subject of Semiotics. New York: Oxford University Press.
Tokarska-Bakir, Joanna. 2011. Cries of the Mob in the Pogroms in Rzeszów (June 1945), Cracow (August 1945), and Kielce (July 1946) as a Source for the State of Mind of the Participants. East European Politics & Societies 25: 553–574.
Trezise, Thomas. 2013. Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. New York: Fordham University Press.
Zaremba, Marcin. 2001. Komunizm, Legitymizacja, Nacjonalizm: Nacjonalistyczna Legitymizacja Władzy Komunistycznej W Polsce. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Trio.
Zubrzycki, Geneviève. 2006. The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Holc, J. (2018). Memory Activism Challenging the Reconciliation Paradigm. In: The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism . Memory Politics and Transitional Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63339-8_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63339-8_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-63338-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-63339-8
eBook Packages: Political Science and International StudiesPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)