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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Auschwitz"”.
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The Lagermuseum Creative Manuscript and ‘Encountering Auschwitz: Touring the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’
… a littleknown aspect of the history of the Auschwitz concentration and death camp complex, namely the trade and display of prisoner artworks. However, it is also concerned with exposing the governing paradigms inherent to contemporary encounters with the Holocaust, calling attention to the …
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Tracing memory : representation and the Auschwitz experience in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz et après
… the ways in which memory is represented in Auschwitz survivor, Charlotte Delbo's literary trilogy, Auschwitz et Apres, (Auschwitz and After) (1970a;1970b;1971). Its examination of memory is premised on the understanding of survivor narrative as testimonial narrative and testimony as the …
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A medicina nos campos de concentração de Auschwitz
O campo de concentração de Auschwitz, na Polônia, tornou-se para o mundo um símbolo do Holocausto, de genocídio e terror, instrumento de execução da ideologia nazista, formulada por Adolf Hitler e seus companheiros de partido. A atuação médica tinha um papel importante neste contexto, com objetivos …
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READING RHETORIC THROUGH TRAUMA: CHARLOTTE DELBO'S AUSCHWITZ AND AFTER
… Charlotte Delbo's groundbreaking memoir <italic>Auschwitz and After</italic> as a case study. I argue, drawing upon the work of Susan J. Brison, that the externalization of her memories in narrative form allows Delbo to reclaim the self devastated by trauma; the text, however, shatters …
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Auschwitz: Art, Commemoration and Memorialisation: From 1940 To The Present
STEFAN LUDWIK ALOSZKO AUSCHWITZ: ART, COMMEMORATION AND MEMORIALISATION: FROM 1940 TO THE PRESENT ABSTRACT This thesis explores chronologically the art, commemoration and memorialisation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz, from their establishment in 1940 to the present …
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Verses on Auschwitz : images of the Holocaust in modern American poetry
This thesis examines how poetic responses to the Holocaust in America, when they emerged, have differed from the novels addressing the same subject; how the Second World War has challenged, in a way the First World War did not, basic humanistic assumptions regarding the image of man, the role of …
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German Deeds, Polish Soil, Jewish Shoah: Auschwitz Memory and the Politics of Commemoration
Auschwitz memory has been constructed, maintained, and modified within a resilient, but not immobile political and cultural framework, resulting in the emergence of three dominant modes of collective memory at the memorial site. First, Auschwitz was presented and groomed as a site of Polish …
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The impact of Nazi medical experiments on Polish inmates at Dachau, Auschwitz and Ravensbruck
… prisoners: priests at Dachau, physicians at Auschwitz and women at Ravensbruck, taking a biographical approach for the wartime and post-war periods. First, it presents the way they coped with medical experiments and with everyday life in their respective concentration camps; secondly, it …
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Geschichte und Symbolik der gestreiften KZ-Häftlingskleidung
… Kleidungsstücke aus den Gedenkstätten Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald , Dachau, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, des Deutschen Historischen Museums Berlin, dem Heimatmuseum und Gedenkstätte Wewelsburg und Yad Vashem dokumentiert sowie ein Abbildungsband.
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Leben als Artikulation : die anthropologische Ikonographie der Schriften von Imre Kertész
… Rahmen einer Judendeportation verhaftet und über Auschwitz in das KZ Buchenwald verbracht. Nach der Befreiung des Lagers 1945 kehrte er in seine Heimatstadt zurück, wo er seit 1953 als Schriftsteller und Übersetzer tätig war. 2001 verlegte er seinen Lebensmittelpunkt nach Berlin. 2002 erhielt er …
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"Perennial Miracle of Modest Interpreters": Charlotte Delbo's Théâtre Concentrationnaire
… experiences of playwright, activist, and Auschwitz survivor Charlotte Delbo. Turning to drama again and again to cope with the horrors of the concentration camps, Delbo and her companions in the camps proved that theatre is, in fact, an innate human impulse and not merely a form of …
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Philosophical Sundials: Adorno and the Lyric
… to Adorno’s famous dictum against poetry after Auschwitz. The third chapter attempts to outline the appearance of a paradoxical “inverse” theology at the heart of Adorno’s thinking by reading it through the lyric of Ingeborg Bachmann.</p> <p>As a kind of master star map to the constellation …
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Baldur Von Schirach
… anti-Semitism and racial laws could lead to an Auschwitz, then Auschwitz must mark the end of racial politics and the death of anti-Semitism.”</p> <p>This self-Implicating admission was made by Baldur von Schirach, erstwhile Reich Youth Leader and Gauleiter oi Vienna, before the International …
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How the ideology and political structures of Nazi Germany enabled the Holocaust : a study in ideology and political structures
… referred to by scholars as the ‘twisted road to Auschwitz.’ In this essay, the two primary historiographical approaches to the Holocaust, intentionalism and functionalism, will be synthesized and reconciled with the political-scientific approaches of interpretivism and structuralism. I argue that …
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
… by Benjamin and Agamben. The Muselmann in Auschwitz as described by Agamben is the hunchback’s re-appearance in contemporary biopolitics, an ‘uncanny’ double of the normalised upright human figure. The ideas of threshold and hunchback are held together by Kafka’s hunched object-creature …
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Death, Dying and Dark Tourism in Contemporary Society: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
… the research examines these relationships at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum & Memorial (Oświęcim, Poland), WTC Tribute Visitor Centre at Ground Zero (New York), Body Worlds exhibition at the O2 Arena (London), and the Dungeon visitor attractions (York and London). The research finds that in a …
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Expressing the Inexpressible: Bearing Witness in Jean-François Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius
… revisionism's logical bind that forbids the Auschwitz survivor to testify to the existence of gas chambers (there cannot be a living survivor to a death camp). By taking the challenge seriously, Lyotard reveals that the force of this differend is not its circularity, but the mind's conceptual …
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Absent Others: dark tourism, theatricality, and ethical spectatorship
… stated that there could be no poetry after Auschwitz (34). Yet, we cannot turn away from such disasters. This thesis is concerned with how theatricality allows us to face such grievous history, and seeks to engage a theatrical analysis to help clarify what is at stake in such spectatorship. …
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