Michael C. Steinlauf "Bondage To the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust. Modern Jewish History.
A summary of Polish-Jewish relations up to and during the Holocaust outlines how the Polish people were involved in the Holocaust as witnesses, the subsequent denial of involvement after the war, and the communist manipulation of Holocaust memory in the struggle between the Solidarity movement and the Polish government.
A very well researched and nuanced study of postwar Poland's efforts, first to deny then to begin to deal with the complex reality of the Holocaust and particularly the fact that KL Auschwitz―the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers―and all other major death camps were located by Hitler's Nazi criminals on Polish soil. This very fine study of intellectual, cultural, and ethnic history deserves broad exposure.
Yet this new openness, too, entails anguish. Steinlauf does a masterful job in picking our way through the labyrinth.
Syracuse University Press; 1st edition.
Paperback. 1997.
New book.