Women's luxury items in concentration camps
TitleWomen's luxury items in concentration camps
Author
Call number940.5318082/0041
Object number10317b
Place of publicationWarsaw, Poland
PublisherInstytut Badan´ Literackich PAN
Year of publication
2015
Physical descriptionpp64-76
MaterialArticle
ISBN9788364703249
NotesArticle from the book 'Women and the Holocaust: new perspectives and challenges' pp64-76
Description
For the people coming to Auschwitz, it was the state of the body that conditioned their fate in the camp. The process of 'selection' for immediate extermination was repeated from time to time and it was the state of the body that was used as criteria. References to luxury items in the camp memoirs suggest that it is the body itself that gives luxury a meaning