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Literature as resistance: survival in the camps
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Literature as resistance: survival in the camps
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call numberS940.5318/004
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]03469bn
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Oxford, England
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Pergamon, United States Holocaust Memorial Council, Yad Vashem
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1986
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]pp79-89
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
NotesArticle from the journal 'Holocaust and Genocide Studies' Vol. 1 Number 1, 1986 pp79-89
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
The value of reading literature is explored, in general, followed by specific examples of the function of literature and the faculty of memory in the camps as described by witnesses. For some, such as Primo Levi, reconstructing poems and plays from memory played a significant role in keeping contact with 'the other world'.