Prisoner society in the camps
Seminar questions:
How did the prisoner society compare to our society?
Why is gender still important in the camps?
What are the specifics of Millu's early Holocaust narrative?
Core readings:
Liana Millu, Smoke over Birkenau (New York: Jewish Publication Society, 1991): 145-197.
Further readings:
Terrence des Pres, The Survivor: Anatomy of Life in Death Camps (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976).
Nikolaus Wachsmann, KL (London, 2014), ch. 10.
Jane Caplan, “Gender and the Concentration Camps,” in Caplan/Wachsmann, pp. 82-107.
Alexandra Garbarini, Numbered Days: Diaries and the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
Anna Hájková, ‘Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Negotiating the Sexual Economy of the Theresienstadt Ghetto,’ in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 38, 3 (spring 2013), pp. 503-533.
Emma Kuby, Political survivors: The resistance, the Cold War, and the fight against concentration camps after 1945 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019).
Alexis Herr, The Holocaust and compensated compliance in Italy : Fossoli di Carpi, 1942-1952 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016).
Lawrence Langer, Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays (New York, 1995).
Anna Pawełczynska, Values and Violence in Auschwitz: A Sociological Analysis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979, original 1973).
Wolfgang Sofsky, The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013).
Maja Suderland, Inside Concentration Camps: Social Life at the Extremes (Cambridge/UK: Polity, 2013).