Language:
German
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
190 (2009) 174-186
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
Abstract:
Discusses memoirs written mainly by women, on their experiences during the Nazi period in Italy. Deportations to Nazi concentration camps took place there between September 1943- April 1945. In summer 1943, 40,157 Jews were living in Italy; 8,566 were deported to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and other camps, and 1,009 survived. Between 1944-93, 149 Holocaust works were published in Italian, written by 108 authors; 12 were women, eight among them Jewish. Focuses on five texts whose authors were young Jewish women between the ages of 25-30 when they were deported to Auschwitz. The memoirs were written by Luciana Nissim, Frida Misul, Alba Valech Capozzi, Giuliana Tedeschi, and Liana Millu. Nissim wrote in a factual style, while Misul's testimony is written in an emotional style. Valech Capozzi's memoirs constitute a text of mourning and working through pain on bereavement of relatives. Tedeschi's chronicle is written from a very feminine perspective, and the most ambitious text literarily was penned by Millu.
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