Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo: Atti del Convegno
Angaben zur Quelle:
IX (2007) 467-482
Keywords:
Jewish women in the Holocaust
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives, Italian
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
The narratives presented in testimonies and memoirs of the Shoah, written by Italian women (e.g. Liana Millu, Frida Misul, Luciana Nissim, Giuliana Tedeschi, and Alba Valech Capozzi), show recurrent traits. These include the predominance of subjectivity over objectivity, descriptions of individual events over chronology, and descriptions of intimate daily life over larger collective contexts. Of special relevance are descriptions of corporal suffering and of the struggle to preserve a minimal level of respectability in the most extreme situations of corporal humiliation.
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