Testament – przypadek obozu śmierci Kulmhof
Testament – the case of the Kulmhof death camp
Author(s): Barbara ElmanowskaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, General Reference Works, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature, Source Material
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: testament; Kulmhof; Chełmno; Izrael Żurawski; Szymon Srebrnik; death camp; personal document literature; Holocaust
Summary/Abstract: The article is about a testament as an intermediate genre between legal and personal document literature. The author analyses differences in understanding of this term and how it depends on the time and place it was written in, especially in the case of a testament written during the Holocaust. The article presents cases of testaments of the last prisoners of the Kulmhof death camp (today Chełmno) including Izrael Żurwaski and Szymon Srebrnik – two prisoners who escaped from Kulmhof in January 1945. The author also tracks every contradictory information concerning these testaments.
Journal: Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media
- Issue Year: 3/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 77-91
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish