Seventy-five years after the Holocaust Poland¿s approach to its murdered Jewish community
still remains a highly debated and often politicized issue. This book addresses this contested
topic in an interdisciplinary way integrating the approaches of memory studies social
anthropology and sociology. The authors revisited the material from the fieldwork carried out
25 years ago and compared it with the interviews collected recently with the younger generation
of Poles. The result is a fascinating account of the process of collective forgetting that
offers not only an original insight into Christian-Jewish relations after the Holocaust but
also a significant contribution to the reflection on the social mechanisms of remembrance and
identity-building.
