Czyżak, Agnieszka2014-12-152014-12-152013Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2013, nr 22, s. 157-1721233-8680http://hdl.handle.net/10593/12364The article contains reflections on changes in biographical writing, especially biography of persons of heterogenous ethnic identity. The biographies are not only reconstructions of an individual’s life, but also a clear testimony and reflection of changes in collective consciousness. It turns out that biographies also discover, in a peculiar way, the author’s identity, who, in the process of selection and creation of a biographical text, reveals a part of their own history. This aspect is clearly seen in texts by second and third generation Holocaust survivors, and is demonstrated by interpretations of Magdalena Tulli’s "Włoskie szpilki" [Italian High Heels] and Piotr Paziński’s "Pensjonat" [Boarding house].plPolish-Jewish and Jewish-Polish biographiespostmemoryHolocaustfamily historiesidentitytestimonyArtykuł