Sound Memories of the Second World War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This book investigates the crucial yet often overlooked role of sound in shaping the memory of the Second World War.

Marcin Filipowicz is Professor of Gender and Literary Studies at Charles University in Prague and at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of numerous articles and several monographs, including Configuring Memory in Czech Family Sagas: The Art of Forgetting in Generic Tradition (2022).

Andrea Hanáčková is Associate Professor of Theatre and Radio Studies at Palacký University Olomouc. She recently published Autorský rozhlasový dokument (2022), which charts three decades of independent Czech documentary production since the fall of communism.

Dobrawa Lisak-Gębala is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Wroclaw. She is the author of the monograph Poetycka tanatosonika. Dźwięki przemocy zbrojnej w wierszach z lat 1939-1945 2025).

Radmila Svaříčková Slabáková is Professor of History at Palacký University Olomouc. She is editor of Family Memory: Practices, Transmission and Uses in a Global Perspective (Routledge 2021).

Slawomir Wieczorek is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Musicology, University of Wroclaw. He is the author of On the Musical Front: Socialist Realist Discourse on Music in Poland, 1948-1955 (2020) and co-editor of Sounds of War and Peace: Soundscapes of European Cities in 1945 (2018) and Sensitive Sound Recordings (2022).