Od amnezji do amnestii
From Amnesia to Amnesty?

Summary/Abstract: Katarzyna Dudzińska reviews BetweenHeroes’ Square andRechnitz: an Austrian Reckoning by Monika Muskała (Korporacja Ha!art, Krakow 2016). The author outlines the two spaces of the Austrian repression of World War Two history fundamental to the book – the Vienna’s Heldenplatz, where Adolf Hitler declared Austria’s accession to the German Reich in 1938, and the town of Rechnitz, where around 180 Jewish workers were murdered during an Austrian party in 1945. Dudzińska observes that Muskała gives the floor to testimonies that are “explosions of the past,” revealing what has been repressed, invisible, or consciously forgotten. The critic notes the variegated, polyphonic nature of the book’s materials.

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