Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media


ISSN: 2353-8694    OAI    DOI: 10.18276/au.2015.1.4-10
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Issue archive / nr 1 (4) 2015
Abraham Kajzer i jego tekst z obozów koncentracyjnych – studium przypadku
(Abraham Kajzer and His Text from Concentration Camps – Case Study)

Authors: Barbara Elmanowska
Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Keywords: writing practice Nazi genocide materiality AL Riese KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Abraham Kajzer intimate diary
Whole issue publication date:2015
Page range:20 (149-168)
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Abstract

The author analyses one of the intimate diaries from concentration camps written by Abraham Kajzer, who was a prisoner of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau and AL Riese (which was a part of KL GrossRosen on Lower Silesia). In article is uses Paweł Rodak’s theory of broad understanding of diary’s materiality as a writing practice, which was very complicated and difficult during the World War II, especially at concentrations camps (finding material and tool to write, organizing space and work out a ritual of writing; also place where notes were hiding and their fates in the post-war years). Diary it’s not only on textual level but it’s closely related to regular life. But in the camp writing daries was extremely dangerous practice (author could pay with his own life for it). Abraham Kajzer was an writing in Yiddish on empty cement bags with indelible pencil in camp latrine, where he was also hiding notes. After war he passed on his material to Adam Ostoja, who translated them and edited to publication. Kajzer described his reality in concentration camps and many traumatic experiences, which are one of many evidences of the Nazi genocide.
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Bibliography

1.Abraham Kajzer, Za drutami śmierci, Muzeum Gross-Rosen, Wałbrzych 2008.
2.Dorota Sula, Życie kulturalne i religijne więźniów w KL Gross-Rosen, Muzeum Gross-Rosen, Wałbrzych 2007.