- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish‒Jewish Studies
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Contents
- Note on Names of People and Places
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1918‒1939 and 1945‒1947
- Jewish Reaction to the Soviet Arrival in the Kresy in September 1939
- Reflections on Soviet Documents Relating to Polish Prisoners of War Taken in September 1939
- The Demography of Jews in Hiding in Warsaw, 1943‒1945
- Psychological Problems of Polish Jews who Used Aryan Documents
- My Two Mothers
-
Early Swedish Information about the Nazis’ Mass Murder of the Jews
- Jewish Identities in the Holocaust: Martyrdom as a Representative Category
- Three Essays on Jewish Education during the Nazi Occupation
-
Two Coffins on Smocza Street and Śliska Street
- Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński: A Poet-Hero
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Paper Epitaphs of a Holocaust Memorial: Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions
- Letter to Father
-
Stereotypes of Polish–Jewish Relations after the War: The Special Commission of the Central Committee of Polish Jews
-
The Bund and the Jewish Fraction of the Polish Workers’ Party in Poland after 1945
-
Whose Nation, Whose State? Working-Class Nationalism and Antisemitism in Poland, 1945‒1947
- Poles and Jews in the Kielce Region and Radom, April 1945–February 1946
- Polish Jews during and after the Kielce Pogrom: Reports from the Communist Archives
- Bełżec
- The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum: From Commemoration to Education
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński: A Poet-Hero
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński: A Poet-Hero
- Chapter:
- (p.166) Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński: A Poet-Hero
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 13
- Author(s):
Joanna Rostropowicz Clark
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter focuses on poet Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński. Before the cycle of the trauma of the Nazi occupation's horror, already in the spring of 1941 Baczyński had written a few remarkable poems testifying to his shock at what everybody had seen. Baczyński can be identified as a representative and forerunner of ‘generational catastrophism’, as opposed to ‘historiosophic catastrophism’. Ultimately, Polish poets writing and publishing their booklets of poems during the occupation in clandestine publishing houses used allusion and silence not just as a means of expression, but also as a precaution. The circle of their readers, a few thousand strong, who every day were in contact with the same truths, understood every metaphor and every ellipse. The poems that were closest to these truths-facts were most often copied, recited among friends and in prison cells.
Keywords: Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Nazi occupation, Polish poems, Polish poets, Polish poetry, generational catastrophism, clandestine publishing houses
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- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish‒Jewish Studies
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Contents
- Note on Names of People and Places
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1918‒1939 and 1945‒1947
- Jewish Reaction to the Soviet Arrival in the Kresy in September 1939
- Reflections on Soviet Documents Relating to Polish Prisoners of War Taken in September 1939
- The Demography of Jews in Hiding in Warsaw, 1943‒1945
- Psychological Problems of Polish Jews who Used Aryan Documents
- My Two Mothers
-
Early Swedish Information about the Nazis’ Mass Murder of the Jews
- Jewish Identities in the Holocaust: Martyrdom as a Representative Category
- Three Essays on Jewish Education during the Nazi Occupation
-
Two Coffins on Smocza Street and Śliska Street
- Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński: A Poet-Hero
-
Paper Epitaphs of a Holocaust Memorial: Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions
- Letter to Father
-
Stereotypes of Polish–Jewish Relations after the War: The Special Commission of the Central Committee of Polish Jews
-
The Bund and the Jewish Fraction of the Polish Workers’ Party in Poland after 1945
-
Whose Nation, Whose State? Working-Class Nationalism and Antisemitism in Poland, 1945‒1947
- Poles and Jews in the Kielce Region and Radom, April 1945–February 1946
- Polish Jews during and after the Kielce Pogrom: Reports from the Communist Archives
- Bełżec
- The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum: From Commemoration to Education
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
