Solidarity and suffering: Lager Vapniarka among the camps of Transnistra

This chapter juxtaposes witness testimony and memoirs with the historical evidence of the Romanian Holocaust against solidaristic networks that developed in Lager Vapniarka. An underground political committee took control of everyday life in the camp and networks of association helped inmates survive. The author reconstructs the surrepticious life of prisoners exchanging stories, food, information from the front, and the bribing of guards and draws upon their resistance and their agency as witnesses to the terror of their internment.