Oral History and the War : The Nazi Concentration Camp Experience in a Biographical-Narrative Perspective
Filipkowski, Piotr
Oral History and the War : The Nazi Concentration Camp Experience in a Biographical-Narrative Perspective - Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2019 - 1 electronic resource (442 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
b14717 9783631769058 9783631769065 9783631769072 9783631748664
10.3726/b14717 doi
Historiography
Oral history
Genocide & ethnic cleansing
Cultural studies
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
Social theory
Biographical biographical memory Camp Concentration concentration camp experience Experience Filipkowski History Narrative narrative analysis Nazi Oral Perspective Polish political prisoners survivors‘ testimonies World War Two
Oral History and the War : The Nazi Concentration Camp Experience in a Biographical-Narrative Perspective - Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2019 - 1 electronic resource (442 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
b14717 9783631769058 9783631769065 9783631769072 9783631748664
10.3726/b14717 doi
Historiography
Oral history
Genocide & ethnic cleansing
Cultural studies
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
Social theory
Biographical biographical memory Camp Concentration concentration camp experience Experience Filipkowski History Narrative narrative analysis Nazi Oral Perspective Polish political prisoners survivors‘ testimonies World War Two