Schillinger and the dancer: representing agency and sexual violence in Holocaust testimonies
TitelSchillinger and the dancer: representing agency and sexual violence in Holocaust testimonies
Auteur
Call number940.5318082/0046
Objectnummer07409d
Plaats van uitgaveWaltham, Massachusetts, United States, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Jaar van uitgave
2010
Pagina'spp.61-74
MateriaalArtikel
ReeksHBI series on Jewish women
ISBN9781584659051
NotesArticle from the book 'Sexual violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust' pp.61-74
Beschrijving
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
