TY - JOUR AU - Ratajczak, Wiesław PY - 2013/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - „Braterstwo krwi”. Historia Stanisława Aronsona JF - Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka JA - 10.14746/pspsl VL - IS - 22 SE - Polsko-żydowskie, żydowsko-polskie DO - 10.14746/pspsl.2013.22.6 UR - https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/2277 SP - 83-93 AB - <p>Based on conversations with the hero, Patrycja Bukalska’s <em>Rysiek z Kedywu. Niezwykłe losy Stanisława Aronsona </em>[Rysiek from Kedyw.<em> </em>Incredible Tribulations of Stanisław Aronson], is an important contribution<em> </em>to the study of Polish-Jewish relations. This is because Aronson’s<em> </em>life is a unique combination of various elements of Polish and Jewish<em> </em>biographies in the 20th century. His life story includes: a happy childhood<em> </em>in a wealthy assimilated Jewish family, the nightmare of Soviet<em> </em>and German occupation, deaths of closest relations, participation in<em> </em>Armia Krajowa resistance movement and Warsaw Uprising, military<em> </em>service in general Anders’s corps, and then in Israeli army. Jew, Pole,<em> </em>Israeli: each of these identies demanded a different ordering and expression<em> </em>of memory, different omissions and declarations. With such<em> </em>an unusual and mixed experience, Aronson had a vantage point to look<em> </em>at the images that Poles, Jews, Holocaust survivors and citizens of newly<em> </em>created Israel, had of one another. Bukalska’s book can be read as<em> </em>a voice against generalizations, as a narrative about a concrete human<em> </em>life immersed in history, a narrative about individual choices, courage,<em> </em>and friendship.</p> ER -