Konstruowanie pamięci o żydowskich mieszkańcach na obszarze centralnej Polski

The article focuses on presenting the process of constructing the memory of the Jewish community by non-Jewish social actors in the context of (un)preserved traces of its existence based on selected examples. The study area is the territory of the Wartheland incorporated into the Third Reich during World War II for the purpose of complete Germanization. The phenomenon described in the article was called the construction of memory, because it can be said that it is more a process of construction than reconstruction, since it is difficult to refer to the referents of memory as they have not only been repressed, but even erased from social memory. For example, from this perspective, it is difficult to talk about a palimpsest of memory because discovering its subsequent layers leads to emptiness.