Schillinger and the dancer: representing agency and sexual violence in Holocaust testimonies
TitreSchillinger and the dancer: representing agency and sexual violence in Holocaust testimonies
Auteur
Call number940.5318082/0046
N° d'objet07409d
Lieu de publicationWaltham, Massachusetts, United States, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Année de publication
2010
Paginationpp.61-74
MatérielArticle
SérieHBI series on Jewish women
ISBN9781584659051
NotesArticle from the book 'Sexual violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust' pp.61-74
Description
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
