biographische Bewältigungsmuster von weiblichen jüdischen Konzentrationslager-Überlebenden in den USA
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kittel, Sabine
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2006
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenconcentratiekampen, nationaal socialisme, joodse vrouwen, trauma's, levensgeschiedenissen, gender, identiteit, jodendom, emigratie, methoden van onderzoek, oral history, Europa, Verenigde Staten, tweede wereldoorlog, 1950-1999
- Description
- Sabine Kittel wrote a book on Jewish women who survived the women´s concentrationcamp of Ravensbrück, and who, after World War II, continued living with their traumas, many of them after emigrating to the United Stated, as so called ´displaced persons´. The women were originally from Poland, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands and Tsechoslovakia. They were interviewed at the age of 66-87 years. The introductory chapters are on the methodology of the research. Subsequent chapters are on living and surviving under the regime of the camp, the reorientation on life after the war, and life in the multi-ethnic society of present day America. Central questions in the book are: How could the women return to normality, after the total loss of identity. What were the influences on individual life histories of factors such as: solidarity among women, their national origins, the religious community, the presentation of the 'Holocaust' in American popular culture.