A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz: History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival
Primo Levi noted in “The Gray Zone,” chapter two of his monumental The Drowned and the Saved, that Nazi camps presented prisoners a morally ambiguous universe fraught with what Lawrence Langer would later term “choiceless choices.” Prisoners struggled within a context that was mostly beyond their co...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 134-136 |
| Review of: | A Jewish kapo in Auschwitz (Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2014) (Mengerink, Mark A.)
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| Summary: | Primo Levi noted in “The Gray Zone,” chapter two of his monumental The Drowned and the Saved, that Nazi camps presented prisoners a morally ambiguous universe fraught with what Lawrence Langer would later term “choiceless choices.” Prisoners struggled within a context that was mostly beyond their control and made decisions negatively impacting the lives of other prisoners. Isaiah Trunk's study examining the controversial Judenräte also illustrated Jewish responses to the extreme circumstances of the ghettos. These three scholars did more than any others to advance a nuanced approach: after the publication of their studies, no serious Holocaust scholar would portray the victims' responses to persecution in black-and-white terms. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw008 |