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Piles of Rubbish Wrapped Everything That Was Alive in a Cotton Ball of Stench: Rubbish in the Warsaw Ghetto as an Environmental History of the Holocaust

Summary/Abstract: This article examines rubbish, human waste and dirt in the homes, yards and streets of the Warsaw Ghetto. Leociak views the ghetto as a kind of ecosystem impacted by various factors – biological, social, administrative, but also cultural. Moving away from an anthropocentric textological perspective focused on isolating and interpreting textual representations of rubbish, Leociak turns instead to an environmental history of the Holocaust. This is why he is interested not only in the meaning of the representations of rubbish that often appear in testimonies and documents (the prose of Rachela Auerbach and Ladislav Fuks), but above all in their material phenomenon, their organic-non-organic structure and the processes that take place in it.

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