Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media


ISSN: 2353-8694     eISSN: 2719-4361    OAI    DOI: 10.18276/au.2025.2.25-11
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Issue archive / nr 2 (25) 2025
Siedemnaście rozdziałów życia – obozowa herstoria Aliny Dąbrowskiej
(Seventeen chapters of life of Alina Dąbrowska’s camp herstory)

Authors: Katarzyna Buganik ORCID
Muzeum Etnograficzne w Zielonej Górze-Ochli
Keywords: the women’s camp experience testimony spoken book Auschwitz-Birkenau
Whole issue publication date:2025
Page range:15 (153-167)
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Abstract

This article discusses selected female experiences at KL Auschwitz-Birkenau. The interpretation of the camp experiences is based on Alina Dąbrowska’s spoken book I knowe how the hell looks. The text briefly outlines the circumstances of the book’s creation. It also describes the problems faced by female prisoners at Auschwitz: lack of hygiene, shaving of hair, illness and pseudo-medical experiments. Other important issues adressed in the article include memory, trauma, silence, temporal distance and individual female camp testimony.
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