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Neighbours: Polish-Jewish relations in contemporary Polish visual culture

This article examines the response in Polish visual culture to the Holocaust and the destruction of Poland’s Jewish communities. It establishes that most Polish films on this topic have focused upon how Poles hid their Jewish neighbours and thereby rescued them from destruction, dubbed the ‘hider-hidden’ paradigm. The article argues that, following the fall of Communism and historical revelations that the villagers of Jedwabne murdered their Jewish neighbours, new approaches to Polish-Jewish relations can be seen in transmedia engagements with the past. The article analyses, amongst other cultural products, the installation art and films of Yael Bartana and the website and performance events of Rafal Betlejewski.