Memory of the Shoah : contemporary representations / edited by Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska.

A selection of papers presented at the conference Memory of the Shoah--Contemporary Representations, Łódź, May 2003. Papers are translated from Polish.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska -- Łódź Bałuty : Memory of the Shoah in an Urban Landscape / Piotr Piluk -- The Final Journey of Franz Kafka's Sisters / Grzegorz Gazda -- Art in Places of Death : Polish Signs of Memory in the Nazi Death Camps / Halina Taborska -- Architecture of Terror / Krzysztof Lenartowicz-- The Path as a Formal and Metaphorical Subject of the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrueck / Aleksandra Klonkowska-Walter -- The Architecture of a City as a Constituent of Collective Memory : The Muranów District in Warsaw : An Essay on Traces of the Past / Angelika Lasiewicz-Sych -- The Survivors and the Rescuers : How the Memory of Shoah Functions in the Artistic Realizations of the Grodzka Gate Center in Lublin / Teresa Pękala -- Void and Form / Ewa Rewers -- Shoah on the Stage : To Outwit God by Hanna Krall : Staging by Kazimierz Dejmek / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Polish Literature : an Eyewitness to the Holocaust / Henryk Grynberg -- Recovering the Holocaust : Literature in the 1990s in the Face of the Shoah / Przemysław Czapliński -- Józef Szajna : the Saturated Forms / Krystyna Wilkoszewska -- The Art of the Document : Photography and Trauma / Marianna Michałowska -- Sub Specie Mortis : Notes on Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Tomasz Majewski -- Passages into Emptiness : Comments on Performances and Exhibitions Accompanying the Conference Memory of the Shoah, Contemporary Representations / Blanka Brzozowska -- Bright Space, Whiteness and Grayness, History and the Future / Piotr Winskowski -- Auschwitz Apel : A Prayer of Things / Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska -- Spuren / Joanna Podolska, Wiktor Skok -- Memory of the Shoah? / Roland Schefferski -- Face of the Other / Jan Stanisław Wojciechowski -- Tragic Remembrance and Art / Alicja Kuczyṇska -- The Debate over German Memory within the Context of Martin Walser's Speech of 11 October 1998 (Friedenspreisrede) / Joanna Jabłkowska -- An Unconscious Signal of the Coming Era / Sławomir Sierakowski -- The Issue of the Memory of Shoah in the Polish Press after 1989 / Włodzimierz Mich -- Understanding the Holocaust Philosophically : Following Adomo and Lyotard / Jan P. Hudzik -- Adorno and We / Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska -- About the Authors.