Women's luxury items in concentration camps
TitoloWomen's luxury items in concentration camps
Autore
Call number940.5318082/0041
Numero oggetto10317b
Luogo di pubblicazioneWarsaw, Poland
Anno di pubblicazione
2015
Paginazionepp64-76
MaterialeArticle
ISBN9788364703249
NotesArticle from the book 'Women and the Holocaust: new perspectives and challenges' pp64-76
Descrizione
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