Schillinger and the dancer: representing agency and sexual violence in Holocaust testimonies
TitelSchillinger and the dancer: representing agency and sexual violence in Holocaust testimonies
Verfasser
Call number940.5318082/0046
Inventarnummer07409d
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
Seitenpp.61-74
MaterialArtikel
SerieHBI series on Jewish women
ISBN9781584659051
NotesArticle from the book 'Sexual violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust' pp.61-74
Beschreibung
This is the story of the death of SS man Josef Schillinger and the wounding of SS man Emmerich by a female prisoner generally described as a dancer on her way to the gas chamber in Birkenau. It appears in numerous witness testimonies, and is a very important signifier of resistance within Auschwitz