From Humiliation to Humanity. Reconciling Helen Goldman’s Testimony with the Forensic Strictures of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial
From Humiliation to Humanity. Reconciling Helen Goldman’s Testimony with the Forensic Strictures of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial
Author(s): Andrew Clark WiselySubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien
Keywords: Walter Ritter von Baeyer (1904-1987);Emmi Bonhoeffer(1905-1991);Helen Goldmann (b. 1925);Franz Bernhard Lucas (1911-1994);Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-65);eyewitness testimony;
Summary/Abstract: On 3 September 1964, during the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, Helen Goldman accused SS camp doctor Franz Lucas of selecting her mother and siblings for the gas chamber when the family arrived at Birkenau in May 1944. Although she could identify Lucas, the court considered her information under cross-examination too inconsistent to build a case against Lucas. To appreciate Goldman’s authority, we must remove her from the humiliation of the West German legal gaze and inquire instead how she is seen through the lens of witness hospitality (directly by Emmi Bonhoe er) and psychiatric assessment (indirectly by Dr Walter von Baeyer).
Journal: S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation.
- Issue Year: 8/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 4-35
- Page Count: 32
- Language: English