Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
36 (2008) 108-127
Keywords:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Jewish children in the Holocaust
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
;
Holocaust survivors
Abstract:
Focuses on nine mother-daughter pairs, based on two autobiographies, five testimonies, and two interviews, the latter two of which were mostly by survivor daughters. The accounts stress the girls' early maturation. The girls aged 12-14 when they entered the camp were desperately dependent on their mothers both during incarceration and after the Holocaust, and later had difficulty becoming independent. They suffered from lack of socialization and married at an early age. Unlike their younger peers, the girls aged 14-18 when they entered the camp experienced role reversals between mother and daughter and the role of these daughters in the fight for survival was more prominent, with the daughter often saving the mother. The daughters devoted their entire physical and emotional energies to survival. After the trauma of arrival at Auschwitz, adaptation focused on staying together and enduring within the enforced female world.
Note:
A shorter Hebrew version appeared in
,
"בשביל הזיכרון" ס"ח 5 (תשע) 20-29
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