How To Deal With All That Shame? Jacek Podsiadło, Słup ze słów and the Problems with Memory in the Polish Language Education

Abstract

The paper attempts to analyse the concept of memory in the social conscience, which is a taboo (despitefilms, testimones, the amount of academicresearch) related to the participation of the Polish communities in the Holocaust. It is believed that this dark memory or dark post-memory is animportant element which partially creates the sphere of key values for etery community ornation. Its absorption defines the maturity in taking up the challenges of history and indvidual experience. In order to avoid it being only anelitist memory, it should be included in the school practice, which is a difficult endeavour. It is controversial, and sometimes leads to an even stronger denial of knowledge and unwanted experience, due to its disgracefulness. In Jacek Podsiadło’s Słup ze słów, it is possibe to see the chance to break from this oblivion in the Polish Language Education.