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Strolling in the Ghetto. Experience of the Space of the Łódź and Warsaw Ghettoes from a Pedestrian’s Perspective
Sylweriusz B. Królak
sylweriuszbkrolak@gmail.com Biograduate of the Artes Liberales Collegium and Law at Warsaw University. Author of articles concerning human rights, social sciences, and Holocaust research and popular publications about contemporary Warsaw
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1128-2085
graduate of the Artes Liberales Collegium
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 16 (2020), pages: 613-612
Publication date: 2020-12-15
Abstract
This article is a comparative analysis of two descriptions of walking in ghettoes – the Warsaw and the Łódź one. Moving within the methodological framework of the spatial turn in the contemporary humanities and basing on texts produced then and there, the author analyzes the records of the experience of the Holocaust space in the two largest Jewish ghettoes in occupied Europe. Focusing on records of sensory experiences, he analyzes Stanisław Różycki’s texts from the collection „Street Scenes from the Ghetto.” Scenes from the Life of the Warsaw Ghetto and his study „The Street.” The Appearance and Social Life of the Street in the Ghetto (published in volume 1 of the English edition of the Ringelblum Archive), and also Dr. Bernard Heilig’s reportage from the Łódź ghetto entitled “The First Seven Months in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto” (published in The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto and in an anthology of texts from the Łódź ghetto entitled Oblicza getta [faces of the ghetto]). Based on these records of walking in the ghetto space, the author attempts to answer the question as to how exactly it was perceived and experienced by Jews locked inside them. This article is a contribution to broader reflections on the topic of the sensory experience of the Holocaust space
Keywords
Shoah, Holocaust, Warsaw ghetto, Łódź ghetto, sensual geographies, spatial turn, topographic turn, personal document literature, Łódź ghetto archive, Ringelblum Archive
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