Women's luxury items in concentration camps
TitelWomen's luxury items in concentration camps
Forfatter
Call number940.5318082/0041
Objektnummer10317b
UdgivelsesstedWarsaw, Poland
Udgivelsesår
2015
Pagineringpp64-76
MaterialeArticle
ISBN9788364703249
NoterArticle from the book 'Women and the Holocaust: new perspectives and challenges' pp64-76
Beskrivelse
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