Abstract
ABSTRACT The article examines Ida as an intervention in the politicized debate about Polish-Jewish relations. Adopting an ecocritical lens, it focuses on the forest which shelters a Jewish family, before enabling their murder by the Polish rescuer’s son. This ambiguity serves to counter the accusations of anti-Polishness and antisemitism levelled at Ida in Poland. The article also reframes Pawlikowski’s representation of the forest with Pierre Nora’s ‘places of memory’ and the concept’s extensions and reinterpretations. It considers in an eco-necro perspective the protagonist’s effort to re-humanize her murdered relatives by transferring their remains from a ‘non-place of memory’ to a (former) place of Jewish memory.
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