L’écriture féminine of the Holocaust: Hilda Dajč and Diana Budisavljević
L’écriture féminine of the Holocaust: Hilda Dajč and Diana Budisavljević

Author(s): Nevena Daković
Subject(s): History, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Holocaust ; Testimony ; Intimacy ; collective Holocaust memory; Gendered Perspective
Summary/Abstract: “All philosophizing ends at the barbed-wire fence, and reality, which, far away on the other side you can’t even imagine or else you would howl with pain, faces one in its totality. That reality is unsurpassable, our immense misery; every phrase describing the strength of the soul is dispersed by tears of hunger and cold; all hope of leaving here soon disappears before the monotonous perspective of passive existence which, whatever you compare it with, bears no resemblance to life. It is not even life’s irony.” Two women, Hilda Dajč from Belgrade and Diana Budisavljević from Zagreb, one a Jewess and the other a non-Jewess, one victim and the other a savior, share similar traumatic, intimate, and emotional experiences of the camps, seen as “the profoundest tragedy” in the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH).

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