New blog post (in Polish). Cisza archiwum, głos widma

Urna z popiołami rękopisów i starodruków spalonych przez wojsko niemieckie w roku 1944 w gmachu Biblioteki Ordynacji Krasińskich, źródło: Polona/The urn with the ashes of the old prints and manuscripts from Krasiński Library, burnt by the Germans in 1944

The blog post was guest-written by Dr Izabela Mrzygłód, assistant professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Izabela Mrzygłód encounters the spectre of Warsaw libraries destroyed by the Germans during World War II. It is now 80 years since the destruction of the Krasiński Library in October 1944. The author describes the losses of Polish archives and libraries resulting from German colonial policy. She listens to the silence that was left behind the loss and tries to interpret it in the context of archival turn and contemporary reflections on power and silencing in archives.

Link to the blog post you can find here.