Bearing Witness to Witnessing: Jewish Narratives About Polish “Witnesses” to the Holocaust

The same categories have since the 1940s been applied to the wartime experiences of Poles and Jews. Consequently, the key stake in texts by Polish Jews concerning World War II has been to address the specificity of the Jewish experience of war. This specificity was largely affected by the attitudes of Poles toward Jews. The author analyzes the resistance that this truth encountered based on the example of reception of the texts by Adolf Rudnicki, Krystyna Żywulska, Artur Sandauer, and Henryk Grynberg. In order to outline the context in which Polish Jews who write about Shoah function, she also discusses the reception of selected texts.