Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Women in German Yearbook
Angaben zur Quelle:
10 (1995) 167-187
Keywords:
Fritz, Mali.
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Nurowska, Maria.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Holocaust survivors
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Jewish women in the Holocaust
Abstract:
Discusses the role of gender in remembrance and representation of the Holocaust, citing as examples the memoirs of Mali Fritz, "Essig gegen den Durst: 565 Tage in Auschwitz-Birkenau" (1986) and a novel (in Polish) by Maria Nurowska, "Postscriptum" (1989) [in German, "Postscriptum für Anna und Miriam" (1991)]. Fritz, an Austrian Jewish anti-fascist, describes her incarceration in Auschwitz as a political prisoner and as a Jew; she survived only with the help of other female Jewish inmates. Nurowska's novel describes the dilemma of a 40-year-old Polish woman, saved as an infant by a non-Jew, who suddenly discovers that she is Jewish. Both texts present the female body as a symbol of humiliation, but also of resistance to the loss of identity inflicted upon the Jews by the Nazis. Deals, as well, with the refusal of Austrians and Poles to accept responsibility for discrimination against Jews.
Note:
On Mali Fritz's account of her experiences in Auschwitz, and Maria Nurowska's novel "Postscriptum für Anna und Miriam".
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