Bondage to the Dead - Paperback

by Michael C. Steinlauf (Author)

A summary of Polish-Jewish relations up to and during the Holocaust outlines how the Polish people were involved in the Holocaust as witnesses, the subsequent denial of involvement after the war, and the communist manipulation of Holocaust memory in the struggle between the Solidarity movement and the Polish government.

Back Jacket

Michael C. Steinlauf focuses on Polish witnessing of the Holocaust. This experience amounted, he argues, to a mass psychic and moral trauma unprecedented in history.

Author Biography

Michael C. Steinlauf teaches history at Gratz College in Philadelphia. A Fulbright Fellow in 1983-84, he was one of the first students allowed to study Jewish history in Poland. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Brandeis University, and Franklin and Marshall College and has been a senior research fellow at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.