Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of 'liquid modernity', Zygmunt
Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful …

This chapter discusses the influence of Janina Bauman's Winter in the Morning on Zygmunt
Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust. Both books belong to different spaces of the …

Diverse works of autobiographical non-fiction on the Holocaust in Lithuania reflect a pattern
of generational memory familiar to students of German historical memory, but with key …

In this article, I reflect on my ethnographic-historical study of the genocide experiences and
memories of Roma and the identified gaps between archival and family memory. In order to …

This article makes visible and analyzes survivor testimonies gathered in interviews between
Jewish and non-Jewish Polish survivors of Nazi persecution in Sweden in 1945–1946. By …

This chapter focuses on the multidimensional trauma of witnesses to mass ethnic violence.
The author analyzes the personal experiences of civilians during World War II in Eastern …

The book discusses the history of a previously invisible massacre in Budapest in 1944
committed by a paramilitary group lead by a women. Based on court trials, interviews with …

In post-genocide Cambodia and Rwanda, low-level perpetrators often identify as victims of
the genocidal regimes alongside those they tortured and killed. However, state and societal …

The practices, technologies and narratives that constitute trauma adjust continually
according to their time and place. One such time and place, Europe in the 1940s and in the …

Abstract “Barysz was such a vibrant, such a lively and companionable town,” said 92-year-
old Pole Władysław Kowcz with regret while being interviewed in his home in Lower Silesia …