‘THE BLACK HOLE’: CONVERSATION WITH STANISLAW KRAJEWSKI, ‘A POLE AND A JEW IN ONE PERSON’ Ewa Berberyusz

Ewa Berberyusz: I have just uttered the word ‘Jew’ and it grated on the ear. You winced yourself. Why is it that every time Jews and Poles come together, there is immediately tension in the air? I feel that the person facing me wonders whether I am an anti-semite. This feeling is like a paralysis; I am choking on this word: ‘Jew’.