Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor: Holocaust Testimony and its Transformations, Jürgen Matthäus, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) x + 211 pp., cloth 74.00, pbk. 24.95
The number 2286 is tattooed on the left arm of Auschwitz survivor Helen Tichauer, who is now more than ninety years old. The number indicates that she arrived early at the camp—in fact in March 1942. After she suffered a back injury while engaged in forced labor, Tichauer's own skill with numbe...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 160-162 |
| Review of: | Approaching an Auschwitz survivor (Oxford [u.a.]ö : Oxford Univ. Press, 2009) (Sundquist, Eric J.)
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| Summary: | The number 2286 is tattooed on the left arm of Auschwitz survivor Helen Tichauer, who is now more than ninety years old. The number indicates that she arrived early at the camp—in fact in March 1942. After she suffered a back injury while engaged in forced labor, Tichauer's own skill with numbers became her means of survival: she was discovered to be a skilled graphic artist with a gift for bureaucratic organization. In Slovakia before the war she had painted signs and license plates; now Tichauer painted red stripes on the back of prisoners' clothing and black registration numbers on white strips of cloth attached to the colored triangles that identified prisoners by category., Tichauer was born Helen Spitzer in Bratislava to a middle-class Jewish family in 1918. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr013 |