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This article is a record of a discussion concerning Dominika Macocha's video-sculptural installation 50°31'29.7"N 22°46'39.1"E, 50°30'56.2"N 22°46'01.0"E, 50°30'41.0"N 22°45'49.5"E. The work deals with the uses of discourse and landscapes in mechanisms of camouflaging the crimes perpetrated on Jews by Poles during the Holocaust. The author lays bare and deconstructs these mechanisms – above all the mechanisms of narrative fetishism of production of artificial landscape – drawing on examples from Biłgoraj county. In the course of the discussion, the work inspired a critical reassessment of the categories dominating the ways in which the Holocaust is currently described: (1) Martin Pollack's category of contaminated landscapes, rooted in the ideology of two totalitarianisms; (2) the category of the witness / bystander, which conceals the observers' participation in the scenario of the crime; and (3) the category of taboo, which is ambivalent considering the universal knowledge on the part of local communities about what happened to Jews from their localities. Reflection on the production of taboo leads the discussants to deliberate on the status of Jewish sources in the field of Holocaust studies. Collected since as early as the 1940s, and containing ample and detailed information about Polish crimes perpetrated on Jews, they are nevertheless not recognised as sources by Polish historians. The conversation is concluded by an attempt at recapitulating the present condition of Polish historiography in the light of the postulated new approach to sources.

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The name of the 2nd author was incorrectly presented. The correct name of the 2nd author is "Oranuch Pruetipibultham."

Intro -- Editorial Board -- Editorial -- Contents -- Part I70th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions -- 1 Evolution of the International Humanitarian Law Provisions on Sieges -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Legality of Sieges -- 1.2.1 International Armed Conflicts -- 1.2.2 Non-International Armed Conflicts -- 1.3 United Nations Security Council Resolutions' Impact on the Legal Regulation of Sieges -- 1.4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 2 Towards a Better Understanding of the Concept of 'Indiscriminate Attack'-How International Criminal Law Can Be of Assistance -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Attacking Civilians as a War Crime in International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law -- 2.3 Prosecutions of Attacks Against Civilians Before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court -- 2.3.1 International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- 2.3.2 International Criminal Court -- 2.4 Transition from International Humanitarian Law to International Criminal Law -- 2.5 Final Reflections -- References -- 3 Double Trouble: The 'Cumulative Approach' and the 'Support-Based Approach' in the Relationship Between Non-State Armed Groups -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Traditional Criteria for the Determination of Whether There Is a Non-international Armed Conflict and Which Actors Are Parties to that Conflict -- 3.3 Cumulative Approach -- 3.4 The Support-Based Approach in Non-international Armed Conflicts -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Rebel with the Magnifying Glass: Armed Non-State Actors, the Right to Life and the Requirement to Investigate in Armed Conflict -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Right to Life in Non-International Armed Conflict: Legal Frameworks and Paradigms.