„Tańcz, opowiedz im wszystko...” Losy tancerek żydowskich w czasach Holokaustu
“Dance, Tell Them Everything”: Jewish Female Dancers during the Holocaust

Summary/Abstract: This article offers the first discussion of the fate of Jewish female dancers during the Holocaust. For young Jewish women who challenged the existing model of upbringing based on patriarchal tradition, modern artistic dance was an attempt at defining their own identity. Therefore, education in dance schools was very popular among Jewish girls and women, so much so that their pre-war graduates could be counted in hundreds. In terms of methodology, the article focuses on presenting individual life stories that can illustrate the scale of oppression experienced by Jewish female dancers. Their fates are presented as manifestations of three biographical matrices: emigration/fleeing/exile, life in the ghettos, and the attempt to survive on the Aryan side. At the same time, the article calls for systematic research on the subject.

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