Abstract
This article examines how local complicity in the Holocaust is negotiated, silenced, and revealed through the spatial memoryscape of Rajgród, a small town in northeastern Poland where Poles participated in the murder of their Jewish neighbors in the summer of 1941. Using a microhistorical lens, it analyzes how knowledge, denial, and memory are inscribed in physical spaces and communal practices, rendering space a cultural text. Drawing on personal and municipal records and ethnographic fieldwork, the article shows how Catholicism, nationalism, and ritual symbolism shape collective remembrance and moral hierarchies of suffering in post-socialist Eastern Europe.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Holocaust Studies |
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| State | Accepted/In press - 2026 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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Keywords
- Christianity
- Holocaust
- memory
- neighbors
- pogroms
- profanation
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