Masculine / "Feminine" in autobiographical accounts of the Warsaw Ghetto: comparative analysis of the memoirs of Cywia Lubetkin and Icchak Cukierman
TitleMasculine / "Feminine" in autobiographical accounts of the Warsaw Ghetto: comparative analysis of the memoirs of Cywia Lubetkin and Icchak Cukierman
Author
Call number940.5318082/0041
Object number10317g
Place of publicationWarsaw, Poland
PublisherInstytut Badan´ Literackich PAN
Year of publication
2015
Physical descriptionpp161-182
MaterialArticle
ISBN9788364703249
NotesArticle from the book 'Women and the Holocaust: new perspectives and challenges' pp161-182
Description
When the Holocaust was recalled in historiography and in works of art, it was a severely censored version. It was also presented in forms that camouflaged a painful truth: that Poles played their part not only as witnesses, but also as co-perpetrators of the Holocaust. In the author's analysis she explores in parallel two narratives at the time of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and their differences due to gender