Das Haupt der Medusa
The head of Medusa
Author(s): Margit HerrmannovaSubject(s): Studies in violence and power, Victimology, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Židovské Muzeum v Praze
Keywords: Auschwitz-Birkenau; Holocaust; Medusa; Theresienstadt; family camp; identity;
Summary/Abstract: This article is a personal account of the author's experience as a prisoner in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust. She describes the horrors of the transport, the arrival, the tattooing, the shaving, the clothing, and the realization that she was in a death camp. She compares the camp to the mythical Medusa, whose gaze turned people into stone. She reflects on the loss of her identity, her dignity, and her former life. She also provides some historical background on the fate of the Theresienstadt ghetto and the so-called family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Journal: Judaica Bohemiae
- Issue Year: XXIX/1993
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 76-80
- Page Count: 5
- Language: German
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