Echoes & Reflections | Unsettled Heritage: Traces of Jewish Life and The Memory of the Holocaust in Poland

What happened to the thousands of abandoned Jewish cemeteries and places of worship that remained in Poland after the Holocaust? How are they perceived, experienced, and interacted with by Polish society from 1945 to the present? In Poland, where the void left in the wake of a near-total disappearance of its former Jewish population is most vivid—and where the Nazi “Final Solution” took its shape and form—the remaining Jewish material traces have come to embody both the absence of the Jews and their haunting presence. Join Chilik Weizman to discuss the afterlives of the thousands of Jewish communal heritage sites scattered throughout Poland’s postwar landscape, trace the social, political, and cultural history of how Poles have interacted with their presence, and see the extent to which the sites evoke unsettling memories and conflicting perceptions of the Holocaust and Polish-Jewish reactions.

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