Remembering the Holocaust and the Jewish past in Kraków, 1980-2013
Journal: Research Explorer (The University of Manchester)
Year: 2016

This thesis examines the ways in which the Holocaust and the Jewish past have been remembered in Krakw, investigates the impact local memory work has had on Polish collective memory, and problematises the importance of the 1989 threshold for that memory work.Looking at Krakw, an exceptional and exceptionally important case study, between 1980 and 2013, the thesis investigates heritage creations in Kazimierz, the old Jewish Town, and traces the genealogies of Holocaust exhibitions presented in Kr