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On Defining the Participatory Museum: The Case of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk

2021

This article seeks to contribute to the current debate on the new definition of the “museum” – a debate which led to turmoil at the 2019 ICOM General Assembly in Kyoto. With reference to the case study of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk (MSWW), it analyses the new and very successful genre of the narrative museum, a genre which arguably fulfils the core elements of the definition currently being discussed by ICOM. In this regard, it brings into focus the paramount importance of community involvement in creating and managing narrative museums – an aspect that has been virtually absent in the academic and media debates over the nature of the MSWW and its programme. By pointing ou…

Aleksander Kamiński - pedagog walki o niepodległość w latach drugiej wojny światowej

2018

Artykuł przedstawia osobę i działalność Aleksandra Kamińskiego w okresie drugiej wojny światowej. Podstawą opisu są wspomnienia jego córki i bliskich współpracowników. Doświadczenia w pracy harcerskiej przygotowały go wyzwań, które przyniosła drugiej wojna światowa. Kamiński był bardzo zaangażowany w budowę wojennych struktur harcerskich i działalność konspiracyjną. Ważną działalnością jego było redagowanie „Biuletynu Informacyjnego” Armii Krajowej oraz pisarstwo, które podkreślało realność walki z niemieckim okupantem. Wychowanie do dzielności, służba i pomoc innym były podstawą jego systemu wartości oraz wychowania

Governare il Mezzogiorno. Gli alleati e l'occupazione/liberazione del Sud (1943-1945)

2015

In winter 1943 the United Stated and Britain planned the invasion of Axis-held Europe and decided to invade Sicily. A Military Government (Amgot) – which would be a model for the future Allied administration in Europe – was set in order to administrate the occupied territories. While the Allied propaganda presented the invasion of Italy as a «liberation» from the Axis yoke, when in summer 1943 the Allied troops landed in Sicily, Italy was actually treated as a fully-fledged enemy country. When the Amgot became operative, the contradictory role of the Allies in the occupation emerged clearly. The aim of this article is to examine the complex aspects of this military occupation in Sicily an…

“Narrative Museums” and Curators’ Rights: The Protection of a Museum Exhibition and Its Scenario under Polish Law

2020

Since at least the 1990s, museums have expanded to cover a variety of societal functions, often enabling inclusive and participatory spaces for critical dialogue about the past and the future, and bridging together various narratives and cultural experiences, contributing to social cohesion and reconciliation. The new functions of museums, involving novel technological forms of display and communication, pose several legal questions concerning the management of such institutions, their resources, and exhibitions, including issues of copyright and other intellectual property rights. While referring to a recent case concerning an alleged infringement of the moral rights of the authors of the …

Post memory and cinematic affect in The Midwife

2017

The Second World War has proved a rich source of inspiration for fiction films worldwide. The Finnish fiction film The Midwife (Kätilö, Antti J. Jokinen, 2015) is aimed at an international audience with a story that takes place in the context of the Lapland War in Finland in 1944. The film tells of a romantic relationship between a local woman and a member of the German army, in a highly affective manner. This article argues that the film downplays elements that might have interested the national, or local, audience, and that it privileges affect over knowledge. To bring out the film’s transnational character, the article begins by analysing it in the context of national, or local, and glob…

Continued violence and troublesome pasts : post-war Europe between the victors after the Second World War

2017

Kiedy sacrum sprofanowano, czyli sanktuarium św. Anny w czasie II wojny światowej

2017

WHEN SACRUM WAS DESECRATED, THAT IS ST. ANNA’S SANCTUARY DURING SECOND WORLD WARThe Anastazy Piotr Polanko’s monograph “The Franciscans in Annaberg during second World War” is anew publication concerning the history of the Annaberg’s cloister just before the2nd World War and during the war. It has been published by St. Antony’s Franciscan Publisher in 2013. It was elaborated on the basis of archives of Annaberg’s Franciscan cloister. The author had to make an effort to translate the remaining documents from German. In his book he presents biographies of friars who lived in the cloister during first years of war, their ministry work with number of statistics regarding trips, sermons, retreat…

The Fascination of History Ignored: Explosive Economic Paths for Which We Pay a Huge Price

2018

The paper is presenting a series of examples of ignored history – facts which were overlooked and the humankind who didn’t seem to learn anything. The examples are many: from the eighteenth-century revolutions to the First and Second World Wars and from the economic crisis of 2008–2009 to recent developments in East European countries, particularly in Romania, the people ignore the lessons, and the price paid for this ignorance is huge.

‘A Hellish Nightmare’: The Swedish Press and the Construction of Early Holocaust Narratives, 1945–1950

2020

This study examines how the Swedish press responded to and portrayed the Holocaust immediately after the war. The liberation of the camps, the role and guilt of ordinary Germans, the Nuremberg trials and the ongoing problem of Jewish DPs in Europe were the most important issues on the basis of which the Swedish press had shaped the early post-war view of the Holocaust. Moreover, the fate of the Jews under Nazi Germany formed an important element of such reporting. The author argues that, contrary to the dominant Anglo-American historiography, which holds that the first post-war decades were marked by silence surrounding the German genocide, the Swedish press wrote about the Holocaust often …

Parliament and the Press : Forging the United Nations in Wartime Britain, 1939–45

2020

During the Second World War, not only the United States but also Great Britain played a leading role in planning and establishing the United Nations (UN) as a new international organisation to replace the League of Nations. While scholarship on post‐war planning is extensive, relatively little exists on how the planning process was discussed and depicted publicly in Britain. The purpose of this article is to fill such lacunae by examining the two most important domains for public discussion at the time, the press and parliament. It will argue, first, that the League of Nations’ experience – its inability to use collective force and its optimistically democratic structure – overwhelmingly sh…