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Muscle Memory and Women’s Experience of Concentration Camps

Summary/Abstract: Drawing on Kirsten Hastrup’s concepts of consciousness and muscle memory, Czarnecka describes women’s experience of concentration camps with a focus on the (female) body in a camp, not only as an object of violence, but also the centre of events, equipped with the meaning of its own anthropological biography. She examines the individual bodily subject’s experience, as the subject “documents” or retains these experiences in the body (muscle memory); more broadly, she reflects on the body in a camp – an analogy to concentration camp culture (Mary Douglas). Czarnecka presents a novel perspective on themes such as camp topography, the gender of camp labour, the spectrum of social roles associated with subordination and power, but also symptoms of PTSD, the inheritance of trauma, and the bond with the group of self-identification.

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