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Open research questions in Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies

43 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 4,296 Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • This paper presents a summary of the international academic conference “Common, Disregarded, Marginalized: Exploring New Perspectives in the Anthropology of Plants” is the title of an international academic conference held on May 7, 2025, at the University of Gdańsk, aiming to highlight previously understudied plants, practices, and places in the field of anthropology.

    Sprawozdanie z międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej „Common, Disregarded, Marginalized. Exploring New Perspectives in Anthropology of Plants”, Gdańsk, 7 maja 2025 roku · 2025 · DOI
  • On the occasion of the 660th foundation anniversary of the Academy of Krakow, which fell in 2023, the article takes a closer look at a theme that has not been explored in the academic literature, namely the contribution of the staff of Poland’s oldest national museum in Krakow to the celebrations marking the 600th anniversary of the academy in 1964 with an exhibition entitled Art in Krakow, 1350–1550.

    Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie – Uniwersytetowi Jagiellońskiemu w 600. rocznicę założenia uczelni · 2024 · DOI
  • In the face of limited knowledge about the life of this merchant from Gdańsk, and then from Sopot, the discovery that, apart from numismatic items and so-called Gdansk door, he also collected musical items was a big surprise for the employees of the Art Inkubator, an institution that, since 2019, has been taking care of, e.

    Discovered music collection of Friedrich Wilhelm Jüncke (1842–1897) as the beginning of research into the reconstruction of the old musical inventory · 2023 · DOI
  • By reading Zygmunt Bauman’s famous study critically, this text attempts to show how both the brilliant analyses, observations, and intuitions contained in Modernity and the Holocaust and its errors and distortions can still serve as important guideposts for further studies of the Holocaust in Polish lands and in Central and Eastern Europe even today, some thirty years after publication.

    Zygmunt Bauman’s “Modernity and the Holocaust” and the Unexplored Research Perspectives in Studies about the Holocaust in Polish Lands · 2022 · DOI
  • They were taken in the period from 1860s till 1939, mostly by photographers from Cracow and Warsaw, but the authorship of some of them remains unknown.

    Dawne fotografie dotyczące życia i twórczości Jana Matejki w zbiorach Archiwum Narodowego w Krakowie · 2022 · DOI
  • As far as amendments to the Act on Museums in 2018 are concerned, these were reduced to two of very limitedrange ones, so-called terminology amendments of 3 August 2018 within the framework of the regulations introducing the Act on Higher Education and Science, limited to the new phrasing of Articles 10.

    OVERVIEW OF 2018 AMENDMENTS TO THE ACTON ORGANIZING AND RUNNING CULTURALACTIVITY AND THE ACT ON MUSEUMS · 2019 · DOI
  • This political strategy, however, is not limited to a narrow national vision of Polish heroism and victimhood during World War II, but also tries to connect with the commemoration of Poles as the largest group of the Righteous among the Nations.

    Defending the “Good Name” of the Polish Nation: Politics of History as a Battlefield in Poland, 2015–18 · 2018 · DOI
  • The results of this investigation will be highlighted in the further research of representations and interpretations of the past in the Ukrainian state museum of the history of the Great Patriotic in times after the great re-exposition in 1994.

    Representations and interpretations of the past in the Ukrainian state museum of the history of the Great Patriotic war in the transition at the end of 1980s – at the beginning of 1990s · 2017 · DOI
  • It remains unknown whether the enormous amount due (150 million RM, that is, the equivalent of a minimum 500–600 million in today’s dollars) was paid in full out or what happened with the valuables and other material salvaged during the demolition.

    Dzieje jednej faktury. Glosa do przypisu, czyli Central Park Heinricha Himmlera · 2016 · DOI
  • It remains to be seen whether persons selected on the basis of mere general organizational capacities will be capable of fulfilling the complicated demands put upon the farms by the decentralization of agricultural planning (cf. had to be rejected by the general party meeting as unsuitable because of their bad behaviour or because they were insufficiently trained).

    Recruitment of kolkhoz organizers from the towns · 1955 · DOI
  • As a result of the study, the propaganda stereotype concerning the direct involvement of Ukrainian independence movement representatives in the direct murders of the Jewish population has not been confirmed.

    The Holocaust in Zhytomyr Region: Local Perpetrators and Rescuers · 2025 · DOI
  • The research in the field has recently started with brief discussions of the background and characteristics of some of the periodicals, but, unfortunately, inaccuracies are not avoided, the data on collections is not complete, and comprehensive bibliographies are lacking.

    Kalmyk Émigré Periodicals in W. Kotwicz’s Collection at the University of Warsaw · 2024 · DOI
  • Why there is so little known about this network and the links between Polish and Czech artists in general? More detailed analysis of their ties is a challenge of the horizontal art history.

    The multifaced image of the Polish idiom(s) of Cubism and links of the ‘Poznań Expressionists’ to the Czech artistic scene · 2024 · DOI
  • The article defines the open issue of the payment of the scholarships declared in the newspaper’s publications to the recipients of education at two educational institutions and the pension of Mikhoels’ daughter Nina as measures initiated by the authorities.

    Commemoration of Solomon Mikhoels in 1948 (in the light of the materials of the newspaper «Eynikayt») · 2023 · DOI
  • Although museums' messages are not limited to the articulation of national memory politics being fostered by the "mnemonic warriors" allied with the right-wing government,1 especially those which are state-sponsored…

    The Righteous Exhibited. Self-affirmative Memory in Polish Museum Culture · 2023 · DOI
  • Directions for desirable further research on the subject of the participation of non-profit organisations in the management of heritage spaces were identified.

    Przestrzenie dziedzictwa jako przedmiot zainteresowania organizacji pożytku publicznego · 2023 · DOI
  • Many of them, located in the close vicinity of Wrocław, were destroyed as a result of the spatial development of the urban agglomeration, others are usually poorly researched archaeologically and architecturally.

    Rural residences of Wrocław burghers in the 13th-16th centuries · 2023 · DOI
  • The aim of the paper is to present the button set and its ongoing research potentional, both in the further study of the collection itself and in comparison to other similar objects in the Czech Republic and abroad.

    Lidový knoflík ve Sbírce Waldes-Knoflíky · 2022 · DOI
  • The extent to which the rural landscape has changed as a result of the total depopulation of hundreds of settlement units has not yet been determined.

    Możliwości identyfikacji reliktów wyludnionych wiejskich jednostek osadniczych i przekształceń zachodzących w ich obrębie w świetle nieinwazyjnych metod i technik badawczych – studium wsi Bartki z terenu dawnych Prus Wschodnich · 2022 · DOI
  • What is especially little known and insufficiently edited are his notes on philosophical anthropology, discussing the question of human existence and human activity in the world.

    The Main Ideas of Mieczysław Wallis’ Program of Philosophical Anthropology · 2022 · DOI
  • It is noted that the emblemata in the so-called book’s editorial frame and those in decorations should be studied separately, as the latter are of ornamental nature, and require a distinct order of perception, explication, and the recipient’s role.

    Status teoretyczny emblematu w polskiej dekoracji · 2021 · DOI
  • What’s new and different is the temporal (limited to a short post-Thaw period) enthusiasm for open-plan kitchens presented as spaces where a housewife can seamlessly perform two duties at the same time: housework and care work.

    Bez Ludwika i panny służącej. Projekty nowoczesnych kuchni jako zwierciadło przemian roli kobiet w poodwilżowej Polsce · 2021 · DOI
  • The paper stresses that in general, murdered psychiatric patients as a victim group are scarcely represented in regional or national remembrance culture.

    The Kocborowo/Konradstein asylum in occupied Poland during World War II · 2020 · DOI
  • The circumstances surrounding the transferral of the document collection from Jašiūnai remain unclear to this day, however it is very likely that Baliński’s will and testament was not taken into consideration.

    Jašiūnų dvaras kaip Lietuvos istorijos rašymo erdvė · 2020 · DOI
  • Unfortunately, even though he certainly did his best to document his literary connections, the traces of Bruno Schulz’s life and work in the archive are scarce.

    Emil Zegadłowicz – Bruno Schulz. Kwerenda archiwalna · 2019 · DOI

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