The Crosses of Auschwitz

Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland

Bibliographic Data

ID11083293
AuthorsZsuzsánna Magdó (corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume36
Issue2
Pages310-312
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEast Central Europe (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-3037 • E-ISSN: 1876-3308
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/187633009x411656
OpenAlexW1996936062
LanguageEN
Citations received15

310 Reviews / East Central Europe 36 (2009) 304–312 Zubrzycki, Geneviève. Th e Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 277 pp. ISBN 0-226-99304-3. In the summer and fall of 1998, answering the call of the ex-Solidarity activist Kazimierz Świtoń, individuals, civic organizations, and religious groups from every corner of Poland as well as from the USA, Canada, and Australia erected 322 crosses close to the current Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in order to defend Auschwitz as the symbol of the Polish Holocaust during World War II. Th e controversy had been

Cold war · Communism · Economic history · Nationalism · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · State (computer science · Symbol (formal · The Holocaust · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies · Religious studies

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