Lidia Zessin-Jurek
Biographic Data
| ID | 4135423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lidia Zessin-Jurek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lidia |
| FAMILY NAME | Zessin-Jurek |
| SIGNATURE | ZESSIN-JUREK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Masaryk Institute and Archives |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7701-7340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Borderlands to no man’s lands
The thematic cluster ‘Borderlands to No Man's Lands’ brings together three articles focusing on the eastern border of Nazi-occupied Poland at the end of 1939, and beyond. From different perspectives, drawing on diverse methods and sources, we explore how border space and human experience there transforms as a result of violence, withdrawal of state authority and large numbers of refugees and deportees trying to cross in one direction or the other…
No man’s land
The article identifies the “crowding effect” in post-atrocity geographies – spaces saturated with overlapping layers of extreme human experience. Introducing this concept to memory studies, it argues that later exterminatory practices in Eastern Europe obscured earlier refugee geographies, contributing to the absence of a collective memory of flight, a crucial dimension of Polish Jewish experience during the Second World War. The study juxtaposes…
In-Between
Against the backdrop of Poland’s demographic and epistemic distance from the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the wave of student encampments, campus protests, and public declarations of solidarity wi
(Non)responsibility for Refugees – Communicating about the Belarusian-Polish Border (2021–2023)
Given that two dramatically different refugee regimens have developed along Poland’s eastern border, this essay explores the social conditions and discourses that facilitate such a radically different treatment of people. The Polish state’s violation of human rights on the Belarusian section of the border and the celebration of these rights on its Ukrainian section have become part of media spectacles. This text analyses both the technical and co…
On a Melting Ice Floe – Polish Jewish Wartime Refugees in Central Asia
During World War II, tens of thousands of Polish Jewish refugees spent several years in Soviet Central Asia. Yet, little of the intriguing character of the Silk Road remains in their memories. Rather, these convey the years of exile as a desperate attempt to survive in conditions where refugees’ lives depended on the confusingly numerous and varied power actors in the region. Drawing on first-person narratives, the article describes how navigatin…
Whose Victims and Whose Survivors? Polish Jewish Refugees between Holocaust and Gulag Memory Cultures
Holocaust and Gulag studies are witnessing the belated emergence of the Soviet experience of Jewish escapees from Nazi-occupied Poland as a lieu de mémoire in its own right. Although not commemorated in official ritual, museum spaces, or memorial sites, the sheer mass of published testimonies by survivors of this experience far outweighs the previous lack of attention to the refugees’ story. It was the agency of the refugee survivors themselves w…
The August Trials
In an ongoing effort to understand what led to the crime of the Holocaust and why Jews were its target, researchers across various disciplines do not relent in providing new insights. The book by Andrew Kornbluth adds more structure to this joint endeavor to comprehend the Shoah as it zooms in on the enthusiastic complicity of local communities in the genocide conducted by the Germans in occupied Poland. It is based on many years of comparative s…
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back
Seventy years after falling into obscurity, a memoir written by a Polish Jewish survivor has seen the light in English, thus allowing a broader public to rediscover the topic of the murderous labor
The August Trials
In an ongoing effort to understand what led to the crime of the Holocaust and why Jews were its target, researchers across various disciplines do not relent in providing new insights. The book by Andrew Kornbluth adds more structure to this joint endeavor to comprehend the Shoah as it zooms in on the enthusiastic complicity of local communities in the genocide conducted by the Germans in occupied Poland. It is based on many years of comparative s…
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back
Seventy years after falling into obscurity, a memoir written by a Polish Jewish survivor has seen the light in English, thus allowing a broader public to rediscover the topic of the murderous labor
Whose Victims and Whose Survivors? Polish Jewish Refugees between Holocaust and Gulag Memory Cultures
Holocaust and Gulag studies are witnessing the belated emergence of the Soviet experience of Jewish escapees from Nazi-occupied Poland as a lieu de mémoire in its own right. Although not commemorated in official ritual, museum spaces, or memorial sites, the sheer mass of published testimonies by survivors of this experience far outweighs the previous lack of attention to the refugees’ story. It was the agency of the refugee survivors themselves w…
The August Trials
In an ongoing effort to understand what led to the crime of the Holocaust and why Jews were its target, researchers across various disciplines do not relent in providing new insights. The book by Andrew Kornbluth adds more structure to this joint endeavor to comprehend the Shoah as it zooms in on the enthusiastic complicity of local communities in the genocide conducted by the Germans in occupied Poland. It is based on many years of comparative s…
(Non)responsibility for Refugees – Communicating about the Belarusian-Polish Border (2021–2023)
Given that two dramatically different refugee regimens have developed along Poland’s eastern border, this essay explores the social conditions and discourses that facilitate such a radically different treatment of people. The Polish state’s violation of human rights on the Belarusian section of the border and the celebration of these rights on its Ukrainian section have become part of media spectacles. This text analyses both the technical and co…
On a Melting Ice Floe – Polish Jewish Wartime Refugees in Central Asia
During World War II, tens of thousands of Polish Jewish refugees spent several years in Soviet Central Asia. Yet, little of the intriguing character of the Silk Road remains in their memories. Rather, these convey the years of exile as a desperate attempt to survive in conditions where refugees’ lives depended on the confusingly numerous and varied power actors in the region. Drawing on first-person narratives, the article describes how navigatin…
In-Between
Against the backdrop of Poland’s demographic and epistemic distance from the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the wave of student encampments, campus protests, and public declarations of solidarity wi
Borderlands to no man’s lands
The thematic cluster ‘Borderlands to No Man's Lands’ brings together three articles focusing on the eastern border of Nazi-occupied Poland at the end of 1939, and beyond. From different perspectives, drawing on diverse methods and sources, we explore how border space and human experience there transforms as a result of violence, withdrawal of state authority and large numbers of refugees and deportees trying to cross in one direction or the other…
No man’s land
The article identifies the “crowding effect” in post-atrocity geographies – spaces saturated with overlapping layers of extreme human experience. Introducing this concept to memory studies, it argues that later exterminatory practices in Eastern Europe obscured earlier refugee geographies, contributing to the absence of a collective memory of flight, a crucial dimension of Polish Jewish experience during the Second World War. The study juxtaposes…
Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (5 works) · The Holocaust (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Refugee (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works)