World War II and Two Occupations

Anna Wolff-Powęska is Professor of History and Political Sciences at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Faculty Poznań). She was associated with the Institute for Western Affairs and the Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznań (Poland). She researches Polish-German relations, and political ideas in Europe.Piotr Forecki is Assistant Professor at the Section of Political Culture at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). His academic research concerns the Polish memory of the Holocaust, the representation of the Holocaust in films and comics, and anti-Semitism in public discourse in Poland.

• Contents: World War II – Politics of Memory – Victims, Polish People’s Republic – Soviet Occupation of Poland – German Occupation of Poland – Museums and Memory Policy – Polish Film – Representation of the Soviet Occupation – Polish Theatre – Collective Memory – Stalinism – Nazism – Stereotypes – Biographical experience – Schoolbooks.