Object structure
Title:

Female Memories of the Experience of Totalitarian Places of Isolation

Subtitle:

The History of Prison Regimes in the Polish Territory in the Nineteeth and Twentieth Centuries ; Acta Poloniae Historica T. 118 (2018)

Creator:

Buko, Maria

Contributor:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences ; Polish National Historical Committee ; Hartzell, James : Ed.

Publisher:

Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2018

Description:

p. 183-206 ; 23 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

gender ; memory ; experience ; Nazi concentration camps ; Soviet lagers ; Stalinist political prisons ; concentration camps - personal narratives - history and critisicm ; women concentration camp inmates ; women political prisoners - Poland ; concentration camps - Soviet Union - personal narratives - history and critisicm ; World War, 1939-1945 - personal narratives, Polish - history and criticism ; World War, 1939-1945 - women - Poland - personal narratives

Abstract:

This article presents and compares the narratives of some female Polish prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, Soviet prison camps, and those imprisoned in post-war communist Poland. It does not focus on the structural and political differences between these total institutions as much as on what was common between the individual experiences of the repressed women and their memories of these repressions. It also considers the oral history methodology and its impact on the character of the presented sources. The paper focuses on some elements of the narrative, biographical oral testimonies of women – the attention paid to detail, to being an object of mental and physical harassment (including sexual), and to their strategies of survival, including bonding into surrogate families, as well as their post-imprisonment trauma. It also attempts to put these elements into a national, cultural, and gendered context.

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Relation:

Acta Poloniae Historica

Volume:

118

Start page:

183

End page:

206

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0001-6829 ; 2450-8462 ; 10.12775/APH.2018.118.07

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. A.295/118 Podr. ; IH PAN, sygn. A.296/118 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

National Programme for the Development of the Humanities

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