Published: 2020-11-22

Genocide in the Light of Selected Accounts by Concentration Camp Prisoners of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Stutthof, and Gross-Rosen

Lucyna Sadzikowska Logo ORCID
Section: The Shoah and Other Genocides
https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2020.06.13

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of testimonies, accounts, memoirs, ego-documents by concentration camp prisoners of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Stutthof, and Gross-Rosen. The
source material kept in the said KLs’ archives contains a multitude of individual histories of survivors of the genocide, either described in detail or concisely noted down. What the author
focuses on is the variety of those testimonies to suffering and tragedy of people incarcerated in concentration camps. At the same time, she observes that for the former prisoners, decades after leaving the camps, the Shoah and hell are synonymous with genocide. The most common terms used by them to describe genocide are: mass extermination, the Holocaust, Annihilation, hell, the Shoah, hideous violence, total annihilation – both physical and moral.

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Sadzikowska, L. (2020). Genocide in the Light of Selected Accounts by Concentration Camp Prisoners of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Stutthof, and Gross-Rosen. Narracje O Zagładzie [Narrations of the Shoah], (6), 251–263. https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2020.06.13

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Published: 2020-11-23


ISSN: 2450-4424
eISSN: 2451-2133

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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