ABSTRACT:This article asserts that the current rise of right wing nationalism in Poland utilizes a set of nested historical erasures and silences. As Trouillot demonstrates, all history making is about selective acts of remembering and forgetting, and close attention to specific “unthinkable” histories reveals how power infuses the process of history making (1995:29). In the Polish case, the authorized historical record produces a homogeneous model of Polish identity by excluding specific histories of dispossession and destruction. Here, I focus on two places that relate to the horrors of Operation Vistula and the Holocaust. I begin by introducing these two silent spaces which trouble a small town on the eastern Polish border. The article moves first to explore how local people engage and evoke these silent spirits via the fragmented and intricate materiality of these haunted spaces and through acts of remembrance and forgetting. I argue that these practices are an attempt to negotiate a complex multi-ethnic history of conflict and cohesion. Yet they also reveal that some conflicts are more unsayable than others. Finally, the article demonstrates the different qualities of silence around these two historical atrocities. It draws on this difference to understand how local memory interacts with, and is undermined by, the historical narrative espoused by the current government.

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“当东正教消失时”：波兰/白俄罗斯边境的流离失所和灭绝历史

摘要：本文断言，目前波兰右翼民族主义的兴起利用了一系列嵌套的历史擦除和沉默。正如特鲁约所证明的那样，所有的历史创造都是关于记忆和遗忘的选择性行为，对特定“不可想象”的历史的密切关注揭示了权力如何注入历史创造过程（1995：29）。在波兰的案例中，授权的历史记录通过排除特定的剥夺和破坏历史，产生了波兰身份的同质模型。在这里，我关注与维斯瓦河行动和大屠杀的恐怖有关的两个地方。我首先介绍这两个沉默的空间，它们困扰着波兰东部边境的一个小镇。本文首先探讨当地人如何通过这些闹鬼空间的碎片化和复杂的物质性以及通过纪念和遗忘的行为来参与和唤起这些沉默的精神。我认为，这些做法是试图协商复杂的多民族冲突和凝聚力历史。然而，它们也揭示了一些冲突比其他冲突更难以言说。最后，本文展示了围绕这两次历史暴行的沉默的不同品质。它利用这种差异来了解当地记忆如何与现任政府所支持的历史叙事相互作用并被其破坏。然而，它们也揭示了一些冲突比其他冲突更难以言说。最后，本文展示了围绕这两次历史暴行的沉默的不同品质。它利用这种差异来了解当地记忆如何与现任政府所支持的历史叙事相互作用并被其破坏。然而，它们也揭示了一些冲突比其他冲突更难以言说。最后，本文展示了围绕这两次历史暴行的沉默的不同品质。它利用这种差异来了解当地记忆如何与现任政府所支持的历史叙事相互作用并被其破坏。