The College of Wooster Open Works Senior Independent Study Theses 2020 Contested Commemoration: The Relationship Between Politics and the Memorialization of the Second World War in Polish Literature, Cinema, and Museums (1945-Present) Alexandria Joyner The College of Wooster,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy Part of the European History Commons, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Commons, and the Political History Commons Recommended Citation Joyner, Alexandria, "Contested Commemoration: The Relationship Between Politics and the Memorialization of the Second World War in Polish Literature, Cinema, and Museums (1945-Present)" (2020). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 8985. This Senior Independent Study Thesis Exemplar is brought to you by Open Works, a service of The College of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in Senior Independent Study Theses by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. © Copyright 2020 Alexandria Joyner Contested Commemoration: The Relationship Between Politics and the Memorialization of the Second World War in Polish Literature, Cinema, and Museums (1945-Present) by Alexandria M. Joyner Presented in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements of Senior Independent Study Supervised by Dr. Greg Shaya Department of History Spring 2020 Abstract This study examines the relationship between politics and the memory of the Second World War in Polish literature, cinema, and museums from 1945-Present. I argue that the memory of the Second World War has changed radically over the last seventy- five years as the Polish government, in both the communist and post-communist periods, pursued a politics of memory.