Title: Auschwitz, Poland, and the politics of commemoration, 1945-1979 /
Authors: Huener, Jonathan
Publisher: Ohio University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland; Holocaust memorials Poland.; Memory Political aspects Poland.; Memory Political aspects Germany; Oświęcim (Poland) History.; Oświęcim (Poland) Historiography.
Contents: Introduction: The stakes and terms of memory at Auschwitz -- Poland and Auschwitz, 1945-1947 -- From liberation to memorialization: The transformation of the Auschwitz site, 1945-1947 -- Auschwitz as a cold-war theater, 1947-1954 -- The restoration of a commemorative idiom, 1954 and beyond -- The internationalization of the Auschwitz site -- The power and limits of a commemorative idiom: John Paul II at the "Golgotha of our age" -- Epilogue: Poland and Auschwitz in the 1980s.