Writing the camps, shifting the limits of language: toward a semantics of the concentration camps

Building on her larger study that analyzes approximately 50 texts written by German, French, Dutch and Polish concentration camp prisoners, both Jewish and political, Schroder examines the semantic and pragmatic aspects of language use in camp diaries. She argues that their interpretation must include an awareness of the conditions under which writing took place in the concentration camps as well as various aspects of the writer's background before his or her imprisonment