Ludobójstwo w świetle wybranych relacji więźniów obozów koncentracyjnych Auschwitz, Majdanek, Stutthof i Gross-Rosen
Genocide in the Light of Selected Accounts by Concentration Camp Prisoners of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Stutthof, and Gross-Rosen

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of testimonies, accounts, memoirs, ego-documents by concentration camp prisoners of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Stutthof, and Gross-Rosen. The source material kept in the said KLs’ archives contains a multitude of individual histories of survivors of the genocide, either described in detail or concisely noted down. What the author focuses on is the variety of those testimonies to suffering and tragedy of people incarcerated in concentration camps. At the same time, she observes that for the former prisoners, decades after leaving the camps, the Shoah and hell are synonymous with genocide. The most common terms used by them to describe genocide are: mass extermination, the Holocaust, Annihilation, hell, the Shoah, hideous violence, total annihilation – both physical and moral.

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