Unburied Practices of Memory: The Holocaust and the Polish-Jewish Relations in Joanna Rudniańska’s Kotka Brygidy (2007) and XY (2012)

Abstract In many Polish children’s books published in the last twenty years relationship between Jews and Poles during Holocaust is presented as an unburied theme which can be interpreted context of both collective private/individual cultures remembrance. Therefore, this case, we deal with experiences confirmed cultural written order rather than existentially faced. contemporary Poland, a practically monoethnic predominantly Catholic country, where largest number killed by Nazis lived before World War II, there syndrome silence concerning Holocaust. This paper focuses on analysing Joanna Rudniańska’s Kotka Brygidy [ Brygida’s Cat ] (2007) XY (2012), two unique works genre fiction combine parable, magic realism, postmodern fairy tale. The authors argue that texts belong not only to group literary known literature atrocity or genocide for young people but also testimony its authenticity referentiality element figural realism . Analysing works, they show how she, daughter survivor who did want talk about traumatic war experience, writes themes crosses boundaries mixing realistic figures stories firmly rooted poetic, metaphorical, atmosphere subjective expressive narration.