The Holocaust and the problem of empathy : Polish Christian diarists look at the ghetto -- Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz : the Holocaust and the struggle for humanism -- Maria Dabrowska : witnessing the Holocaust through the ideological lens of nationalism -- Aurelia Wylezynska : rethinking art and ethics in the time of the Holocaust -- Zofia Nalkowska : the silence and speech of the humanist witness of the Holocaust -- Stanislaw Rembek: the Christian witness of the Holocaust and the end of Polish Messianic destiny -- Epilogue : to witness the experience of witnessing