#125

Stone memorial in Jedwabne dedicated to murdered Jews with Hebrew inscription and pebbles on top
#125

Jedwabne Pogrom Memorial in Jedwabne

Poland

By Contested Histories Initiative • July 2021

Memorial Status Quo Anti-Semitism #125

The Jedwabne pogrom memorial was renewed in 2001, following controversies surrounding who the perpetrators of the massacre were. This case study explores moral questions over the commemoration and memory of perpetrators, Poland’s responsibility for the slaughter, and how tragic events such as historical pogroms should be commemorated in the contemporary… Read More

Post-Communist Poland

Contested Pasts and Future Identities

By Ewa Ochman • 2013

Anti-Semitism #125 Communism

The book explores the reinterpretations of Poland’s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting shapes present power constellations in Poland… Read More