cinematic city and the destruction of Lublin's Jews
TitleThe cinematic city and the destruction of Lublin's Jews
Author
Call numberS940.5318/005
Object number05556jl
Place of publicationLondon, England
PublisherRoutledge
Year of publication
2016
Dimensionspp244-255
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the journal 'Holocaust studies: a journal of culture and history',vol 22, issue 2-3, 2016 pp244-255
Description
In Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus" Holocaust survivor Vladek Spiegelman remembers his journey from Czestochowa to Lublin as a Jewish prisoner of war in 1941. This article discusses the role of this city in the Final Solution by means of its cinematic image and that of the concentration and extermination camp of Majdanek, at the outskirts of Lublin