Uciekanie...

Abstract

If the purpose of running away is to escape pursuit, avoid danger, and get away from persecutors, then it is accompanied by fear and humiliation as a consequence of separation from the community and abandonment of place, environment, and status. The fugitive – especially a Jewish fugitive trying to escape from his tormentors during the Second War – was forced to obliterate all traces, not only those signifying the escape route but allowing for any identification of him. The historical tale becomes ethically ambiguous, seeking to find the refugee, searching, tracking, and revealing. Perhaps the key to a refugee story is not to extract traces at all costs but to come to terms with the invisible trail or, to put it simply, to let the story’s protagonist(s) successfully escape.