TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piotr Filipkowski
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631769058
TI  - Oral History and the War
T2  - The Nazi Concentration Camp Experience in a Biographical-Narrative Perspective
DO  - 10.3726/b14717
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1063100
N2  - This book is rooted in the author’s experience as an interviewer and researcher in the Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project – the biggest European oral history project devoted to a single Nazi concentration camp system, realized in the years 2002/2003 at the University of Vienna. Over 850 Mauthausen survivors have been recorded worldwide, more than 160 of them in Poland, and over 30 by the author. The work offers an in-depth analysis of Polish survivors’ accounts, sensitive to both, form and content of these stories, as well as their social and cultural framing. The analysis is accompanied by an interpretation of (Polish) camp experiences in a broader biographical and historical perspective. The book is an interpretive journey from camp experiences, through the survivors’ memories, to narratives recalling them − and backwards.
KW  - narrative analysis, biographical memory, concentration camp experience, survivors‘ testimonies, Polish political prisoners, World War Two
LA  - English
ER  -