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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Main Author: Mengerink, Mark A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2016
In: 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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