Memory and responsibility : the legacy of Jan Karski / editor Eugeniusz Smolar.

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Jan Karski - The Unfinished Mission of a Moral Man in Immoral Times -- Jan Karski - the anti-hero hero: The unusual work of an extraordinary man / Szymon Rudnicki -- The Jan Karski I knew / Stephen D. Mull -- Was it really a failed mission? / Maciej Kozłowski -- Memories of Jan Karski / Rabbi Harold White -- Meeting a messenger from Poland / Martin Smith -- II. Europe and the Jews: Holocasut - Reconciliation - ...? -- The Holocaust as a unique experience of European civilisation / Jerzy Jedlicki -- On the uniqueness and singularity of the Holocaust / Paweł Śpiewak -- The era of forgiveness, the inexcusable and radical syncretism / Karolina Wigura -- III. Christians and the Holocaust -- The Holocaust - Nostra aetate - The Church / Bp. Grzegorz Ryś -- The Holocaust: Does it have significance for ethics today? / Fr. John T. Pawlikowski, OSM -- The Jew delusion / Krzysztof Dorosz -- The Christian mourning of the Shoa / Jan Grosfeld -- IV. The Memories of Totalitarianisms - Asymmetry of Memory, East and West, and the Holocaust -- Confession: A few comments on memories of totalitarian crimes / Andrzej Nowak -- The history of Ukraine and the Ukranian history of the Holocaust / Jaroslav Hrytsak -- Holocaust and the collective memory in Estonia / Heiko Pääbo -- Memories of totalitarianism: The Asymmetry of memory, East and West and the Holocaust -- V. The Poles and the Jews - Evolution of Polish Identity -- Against editing of the Jan Karski story / Joanna Tokarska-Bakir -- Jews as a Polish problem? And why not a part of Polish history? / Jan T. Gross -- Jews, Polish identity and Polish disputes / Robert Kostro - Understanding Europe / Piotr M. A. Cywiński -- VI. Overcoming the Taboo - Polish Culture and the Holocaust -- Musing and taboo / Jacek Bocheński -- Polish culture facing the Holocaust: Three decades of overcoming the Taboo / Dominika Kozłowski -- Between conflict and kitsch / Iwona Kurz -- Triumphalism and blockade: A few observations about the most recent Polish theatre / Weronika Szczawińska -- Taboo and catharsis / Tadeusz Słobodzianek -- VII. Jan Karski's Legacy - Memory and Responsibility -- The legacy of Jan Karski - responsibility for the fate of others / Eugeniuz Smolar -- Memory and responsibility - Jan Karski and Raphael Lemkin / Radosław Sikorski -- The genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: The European roots of the Rwandan story / Assumpta Mugiraneza -- The Responsibility to protect: ambitions and challenges / Anthony Dworkin -- Confronting genocide and the limits of law / Payam Akhavan -- Memory - responsibility - justice / Adama Dieng.