Ewa Stańczyk
University of Amsterdam
26 Papers
53 Citations
Ewa Stańczyk is an academic researcher from University of Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Holocaust & National identity. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 19 publications. Previous affiliations of Ewa Stańczyk include Trinity College, Dublin.
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Papers
Yellow star, red star: Holocaust remembrance after Communism: by Jelena Subotić, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2019, 256 pp., £23.74 (hbk), ISBN 9781501742408
TL;DR: For nearly two decades now, sociologists, historians, anthropologists, and cultural studies scholars have been increasingly interested in Holocaust remembrance, both in Eastern Europe and beyond.
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The absent jewish child: photography and holocaust representation in poland
TL;DR: In this paper, the representations of the Holocaust in Poland were examined by examining the ways in which photographs of Jewish children are used in literature, film, and public commemoration, showing how a post-memorial reading of these images by, predominantly gentile, writers, directors and social actors might be viewed as an attempt to rhetorically fill the void left after the destruction of Poland's Jewish community and to project an image of a tolerant civic society.
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Exilic Childhood in Very Foreign Lands: Memoirs of Polish Refugees in World War II
TL;DR: In this article, a selection of memoirs and shorter first-hand accounts of Polish refugee children and their personal experience of exile is examined. But little scholarly attention has been paid to the cultural portrayals of these experiences.
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Heroes, Victims, Role Models: Representing the Child Soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising
TL;DR: This paper explored narratives surrounding child soldiers in Poland, with a particular focus on the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, examining a variety of contexts in which this figure appears, such as urban spaces, press debates, popular literature, and educational games, and unpacking the taboos associated with cultural constructions of childhood.
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