Ewa Stańczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 93809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ewa Stańczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ewa |
| FAMILY NAME | Stańczyk |
| SIGNATURE | STAŃCZYK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5818-3821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
World War II and Holocaust Comics, Perpetrators, and Education
In this roundtable conversation, historians Christine Gundermann, Ewa Stańczyk, and Kees Ribbens discuss various aspects of World War II and Holocaust comics, including the (historical) depiction of perpetrators, the use of victim sources, and narrative structures. Different national contexts of graphic narratives are considered, and the contributors discuss how national frames and politics of memory affect the content and reception of World War …
Polish Refugee Children in India: Personal Memory, Grassroots Activism, and Transnational Commemorative Diplomacy
This article explores the memory of nearly one thousand Polish child refugees who found safe haven in India during the Second World War. It discusses how from the 1970s onward, the former refugees attempted to sustain the memory of their exilic homeland, often with support from other memory actors in both Poland and India. Analyzing both personal testimonies and grassroots memory activism, this article investigates the intertwining of individual …
Surviving Art from Terezín: The Satirical Drawings of Pavel Fantl
This article examines the art of Pavel Fantl (1903–1945), a Czech Jewish doctor whom the Nazis murdered shortly before the end of the Second World War. Fantl left behind approximately eighty drawings. Despite being created under difficult conditions in the Terezín Ghetto, his art stands out for its use of humor and satire. This article argues that Fantl’s work not only testified to the suffering and persecution of Jews, but also reflected the wid…
Szaber in post-war Poland: Satirising plunder in Polish magazine cartoons (1945-1946)
This article explores the representations of plunder in Polish magazine cartoons between 1945 and 1946. More specifically, it discusses how instances of looting or szaber (as it was known in Polish), perpetrated in Poland’s so-called Recovered Territories following the expulsions of ethnic Germans, were portrayed by two major magazines, Szpilki and Przekrój. I propose that the satirical cartoons in question were an important (even if rhetorical) …
Syberiada Żydów polskich. Losy uchodźców z Zagłady [The Siberian Odyssey of the Polish Jews: [The Fate of Fugitives from the Holocaust]
This interesting Polish-language collection of essays, published in 2020 by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, tells the story of Polish Jews who survived the Second World War in the Soviet
Introduction: The Surviving Thing: Personal Objects in the Aftermath of Violence
Mass violence leaves behind a trail of destruction.Similar to people, things also fall victim to displacement and armed conflict.Possessions swap hands, get voluntarily or forcefully relinquished, exchanged for food and shelter, hidden away, entrusted to friends and neighbours for safekeeping, or brought along into forced exile.Objects find their way to mass graves, too, in the pockets and bodily orifices of the killed, on the fingers and wrists …
Cartoon characters, equality nurseries and children’s ‘best interests’: On childhood and sexuality in Poland
The aim of this article is to explore the intersections of childhood and sexuality as they come to light in a variety of public arenas. Looking at three case studies from Poland, I explore how spaces culturally assigned to childhood become symbolically ‘invaded’ by contexts that are stereotypically associated with adulthood. In particular, I analyse the debate about the popular children’s television series Teletubbies that raged in Poland in 2007…
De-Judaizing the Shoah in Polish comic books
This article analyses a selection of graphic narratives from Poland spanning the period from the 1940s to the 2000s. First, it shows that while the atrocity was far from being considered “unmentionable” by comic book artists, for much of the Communist period, the Jewish victims were, leading to a peculiar de-Judaization of the Holocaust. Second, it argues that despite the liberalization of memory after 1989 and the ensuing “Jewish turn,” which br…
The rebelling orphan: Adopting the found photograph
Every day thousands of family photographs get abandoned in second hand bookshops, at flea markets, and internet auctions, losing their past and having their stories erased. Conversely, the same images get found, reappropriated, and assigned with new meanings. It is this process of giving the found photograph a new lease of life that I explore in this article. As I argue here, photographs continue to act as potent narrative tools even if we no lon…
Gendered tropes in war photography: Mothers, mourners, soldiers
Gendered tropes in war photography: mothers, mourners, soldiers." Feminist Media Studies, 17(6), pp. 1122–1123
Exilic Childhood in Very Foreign Lands: Memoirs of Polish Refugees in World War II
The cultural representations of World War II have been dominated by narratives of suffering, victimization, displacement, and death, as much in Poland as elsewhere. But frequently forgotten are the stories of hope and survival of thousands of Poles who escaped the terror of war and found safe haven in distant, and often ‘exotic’, lands such as Persia, India, Africa, and Mexico. To date, little scholarly attention has been paid to the cultural por…
Between Affect and Authenticity: Disobedient Photographs
I would like to begin this essay by thanking Peter Pastor for his careful reading of my article "Heroes, Victims, Role Models: Representing the Child Soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising" which looked at the cultural portrayals of the anti-Nazi revolt and focused, particularly, on contemporary narratives surrounding the underage soldier. By spotting my misreading of the Budapest images, he opened up an important discussion on the afterlife of archival…
Recycling the orphan photograph: The new life of Jewish objects
The aim of this article is to explore the new lives of prewar photographs of European Jewry. In particular, I employ the concept of ‘orphan photograph’ which describes any work whose owners, producers, and the subjects featured in them are no longer available. Working from the premise that a photograph is not only a two-dimensional representation but also a three-dimensional object, I show how family images are consumed, distributed, discarded, s…
Transnational, transborder, antinational? The memory of the Jewish past in Poland
The aim of this article is to explore the interaction between local, national, and transnational frames of memory as it manifests itself in the contemporary commemoration of the Jewish past. Focusing on the case study of Poland, I argue that articulations of transnational memory still remain deeply rooted in local and national interests and mythologies, reflecting the fears, desires, or longings of memory makers. Ranging from digital media which …
Heroes, Victims, Role Models: Representing the Child Soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising
This article explores narratives surrounding child soldiers in Poland, with a particular focus on the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. My discussion examines a variety of contexts in which this figure appears, such as urban spaces, press debates, popular literature, and educational games, and unpacks the taboos associated with cultural constructions of childhood. The article points to the complex interaction between the enduring narratives of resistance …
The Absent Jewish Child: Photography and Holocaust Representation in Poland
This article considers the representations of Holocaust in Poland by discussing the ways in which photographs of Jewish children are used in literature, film and public commemoration. It shows how a “postmemorial reading” of these images by, predominantly gentile, writers, directors and social actors might be viewed as an attempt to rhetorically fill the void left after the destruction of Poland's Jewish community and to project an image of a tol…
Commemorating Young Victims of World War II in Poland: The Forgotten Children’s Camp in Litzmannstadt/Łódź
This article analyses the public commemoration of young victims of World War II in Poland. In particular, it examines the various practices of remembrance associated with Polen-Jugendverwahrlager, the notorious children’s camp established by the Nazis on the territory of Litzmannstadt Ghetto in 1942. While investigating state-sanctioned and local initiatives, undertaken both under Communism and after its fall, this article poses salient questions…
Caught between Germany and Russia: Memory and National Identity in Poland's Right-Wing Media Post-2004
Introduction: The Surviving Thing: Personal Objects in the Aftermath of Violence
Mass violence leaves behind a trail of destruction.Similar to people, things also fall victim to displacement and armed conflict.Possessions swap hands, get voluntarily or forcefully relinquished, exchanged for food and shelter, hidden away, entrusted to friends and neighbours for safekeeping, or brought along into forced exile.Objects find their way to mass graves, too, in the pockets and bodily orifices of the killed, on the fingers and wrists …
Exilic Childhood in Very Foreign Lands: Memoirs of Polish Refugees in World War II
The cultural representations of World War II have been dominated by narratives of suffering, victimization, displacement, and death, as much in Poland as elsewhere. But frequently forgotten are the stories of hope and survival of thousands of Poles who escaped the terror of war and found safe haven in distant, and often ‘exotic’, lands such as Persia, India, Africa, and Mexico. To date, little scholarly attention has been paid to the cultural por…
The Absent Jewish Child: Photography and Holocaust Representation in Poland
This article considers the representations of Holocaust in Poland by discussing the ways in which photographs of Jewish children are used in literature, film and public commemoration. It shows how a “postmemorial reading” of these images by, predominantly gentile, writers, directors and social actors might be viewed as an attempt to rhetorically fill the void left after the destruction of Poland's Jewish community and to project an image of a tol…
Gendered tropes in war photography: Mothers, mourners, soldiers
Gendered tropes in war photography: mothers, mourners, soldiers." Feminist Media Studies, 17(6), pp. 1122–1123
Transnational, transborder, antinational? The memory of the Jewish past in Poland
The aim of this article is to explore the interaction between local, national, and transnational frames of memory as it manifests itself in the contemporary commemoration of the Jewish past. Focusing on the case study of Poland, I argue that articulations of transnational memory still remain deeply rooted in local and national interests and mythologies, reflecting the fears, desires, or longings of memory makers. Ranging from digital media which …
Heroes, Victims, Role Models: Representing the Child Soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising
This article explores narratives surrounding child soldiers in Poland, with a particular focus on the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. My discussion examines a variety of contexts in which this figure appears, such as urban spaces, press debates, popular literature, and educational games, and unpacks the taboos associated with cultural constructions of childhood. The article points to the complex interaction between the enduring narratives of resistance …
Caught between Germany and Russia: Memory and National Identity in Poland's Right-Wing Media Post-2004
Surviving Art from Terezín: The Satirical Drawings of Pavel Fantl
This article examines the art of Pavel Fantl (1903–1945), a Czech Jewish doctor whom the Nazis murdered shortly before the end of the Second World War. Fantl left behind approximately eighty drawings. Despite being created under difficult conditions in the Terezín Ghetto, his art stands out for its use of humor and satire. This article argues that Fantl’s work not only testified to the suffering and persecution of Jews, but also reflected the wid…
Caught between Germany and Russia: Memory and National Identity in Poland's Right-Wing Media Post-2004
The Absent Jewish Child: Photography and Holocaust Representation in Poland
This article considers the representations of Holocaust in Poland by discussing the ways in which photographs of Jewish children are used in literature, film and public commemoration. It shows how a “postmemorial reading” of these images by, predominantly gentile, writers, directors and social actors might be viewed as an attempt to rhetorically fill the void left after the destruction of Poland's Jewish community and to project an image of a tol…
Commemorating Young Victims of World War II in Poland: The Forgotten Children’s Camp in Litzmannstadt/Łódź
This article analyses the public commemoration of young victims of World War II in Poland. In particular, it examines the various practices of remembrance associated with Polen-Jugendverwahrlager, the notorious children’s camp established by the Nazis on the territory of Litzmannstadt Ghetto in 1942. While investigating state-sanctioned and local initiatives, undertaken both under Communism and after its fall, this article poses salient questions…
Heroes, Victims, Role Models: Representing the Child Soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising
This article explores narratives surrounding child soldiers in Poland, with a particular focus on the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. My discussion examines a variety of contexts in which this figure appears, such as urban spaces, press debates, popular literature, and educational games, and unpacks the taboos associated with cultural constructions of childhood. The article points to the complex interaction between the enduring narratives of resistance …
Recycling the orphan photograph: The new life of Jewish objects
The aim of this article is to explore the new lives of prewar photographs of European Jewry. In particular, I employ the concept of ‘orphan photograph’ which describes any work whose owners, producers, and the subjects featured in them are no longer available. Working from the premise that a photograph is not only a two-dimensional representation but also a three-dimensional object, I show how family images are consumed, distributed, discarded, s…
Transnational, transborder, antinational? The memory of the Jewish past in Poland
The aim of this article is to explore the interaction between local, national, and transnational frames of memory as it manifests itself in the contemporary commemoration of the Jewish past. Focusing on the case study of Poland, I argue that articulations of transnational memory still remain deeply rooted in local and national interests and mythologies, reflecting the fears, desires, or longings of memory makers. Ranging from digital media which …
The rebelling orphan: Adopting the found photograph
Every day thousands of family photographs get abandoned in second hand bookshops, at flea markets, and internet auctions, losing their past and having their stories erased. Conversely, the same images get found, reappropriated, and assigned with new meanings. It is this process of giving the found photograph a new lease of life that I explore in this article. As I argue here, photographs continue to act as potent narrative tools even if we no lon…
Gendered tropes in war photography: Mothers, mourners, soldiers
Gendered tropes in war photography: mothers, mourners, soldiers." Feminist Media Studies, 17(6), pp. 1122–1123
Exilic Childhood in Very Foreign Lands: Memoirs of Polish Refugees in World War II
The cultural representations of World War II have been dominated by narratives of suffering, victimization, displacement, and death, as much in Poland as elsewhere. But frequently forgotten are the stories of hope and survival of thousands of Poles who escaped the terror of war and found safe haven in distant, and often ‘exotic’, lands such as Persia, India, Africa, and Mexico. To date, little scholarly attention has been paid to the cultural por…
Between Affect and Authenticity: Disobedient Photographs
I would like to begin this essay by thanking Peter Pastor for his careful reading of my article "Heroes, Victims, Role Models: Representing the Child Soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising" which looked at the cultural portrayals of the anti-Nazi revolt and focused, particularly, on contemporary narratives surrounding the underage soldier. By spotting my misreading of the Budapest images, he opened up an important discussion on the afterlife of archival…
Cartoon characters, equality nurseries and children’s ‘best interests’: On childhood and sexuality in Poland
The aim of this article is to explore the intersections of childhood and sexuality as they come to light in a variety of public arenas. Looking at three case studies from Poland, I explore how spaces culturally assigned to childhood become symbolically ‘invaded’ by contexts that are stereotypically associated with adulthood. In particular, I analyse the debate about the popular children’s television series Teletubbies that raged in Poland in 2007…
De-Judaizing the Shoah in Polish comic books
This article analyses a selection of graphic narratives from Poland spanning the period from the 1940s to the 2000s. First, it shows that while the atrocity was far from being considered “unmentionable” by comic book artists, for much of the Communist period, the Jewish victims were, leading to a peculiar de-Judaization of the Holocaust. Second, it argues that despite the liberalization of memory after 1989 and the ensuing “Jewish turn,” which br…
Syberiada Żydów polskich. Losy uchodźców z Zagłady [The Siberian Odyssey of the Polish Jews: [The Fate of Fugitives from the Holocaust]
This interesting Polish-language collection of essays, published in 2020 by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, tells the story of Polish Jews who survived the Second World War in the Soviet
Introduction: The Surviving Thing: Personal Objects in the Aftermath of Violence
Mass violence leaves behind a trail of destruction.Similar to people, things also fall victim to displacement and armed conflict.Possessions swap hands, get voluntarily or forcefully relinquished, exchanged for food and shelter, hidden away, entrusted to friends and neighbours for safekeeping, or brought along into forced exile.Objects find their way to mass graves, too, in the pockets and bodily orifices of the killed, on the fingers and wrists …
Szaber in post-war Poland: Satirising plunder in Polish magazine cartoons (1945-1946)
This article explores the representations of plunder in Polish magazine cartoons between 1945 and 1946. More specifically, it discusses how instances of looting or szaber (as it was known in Polish), perpetrated in Poland’s so-called Recovered Territories following the expulsions of ethnic Germans, were portrayed by two major magazines, Szpilki and Przekrój. I propose that the satirical cartoons in question were an important (even if rhetorical) …
World War II and Holocaust Comics, Perpetrators, and Education
In this roundtable conversation, historians Christine Gundermann, Ewa Stańczyk, and Kees Ribbens discuss various aspects of World War II and Holocaust comics, including the (historical) depiction of perpetrators, the use of victim sources, and narrative structures. Different national contexts of graphic narratives are considered, and the contributors discuss how national frames and politics of memory affect the content and reception of World War …
Polish Refugee Children in India: Personal Memory, Grassroots Activism, and Transnational Commemorative Diplomacy
This article explores the memory of nearly one thousand Polish child refugees who found safe haven in India during the Second World War. It discusses how from the 1970s onward, the former refugees attempted to sustain the memory of their exilic homeland, often with support from other memory actors in both Poland and India. Analyzing both personal testimonies and grassroots memory activism, this article investigates the intertwining of individual …
Surviving Art from Terezín: The Satirical Drawings of Pavel Fantl
This article examines the art of Pavel Fantl (1903–1945), a Czech Jewish doctor whom the Nazis murdered shortly before the end of the Second World War. Fantl left behind approximately eighty drawings. Despite being created under difficult conditions in the Terezín Ghetto, his art stands out for its use of humor and satire. This article argues that Fantl’s work not only testified to the suffering and persecution of Jews, but also reflected the wid…
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