Published: 2025-06-27

Reminiscences of World War II in the “Przyjaciel” (Magazine for Older Children) in 1945–1948

Bogumiła Staniów
Media - Culture - Social Communication
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/mcsc.9644

Abstract

The article analyses how the topic of the Second World War was discussed by a magazine for older school children immediately after regaining independence. Based on the analysis of the content of "Friend" („Przyjaciel”) for the years 1945-1948, issues, contexts and forms of statements regarding war events that remain vividly remembered were discussed. They confirm the thesis that while periodicals for the youngest focused on commemorative and commemorative issues, magazines for older children deliberately addressed - primarily in stories - the most important, in the editors' opinion, topics related to the recently ended war and did it in a less veiled way. They were thus part of the post-memory discourse in literature addressed to children.

Keywords:

magazines for children, "Przyjaciel" "Frend", The second world war, memory, 1945-1948

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Staniów, B. (2025). Reminiscences of World War II in the “Przyjaciel” (Magazine for Older Children) in 1945–1948. Media - Culture - Social Communication, (21). https://doi.org/10.31648/mcsc.9644

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