Object's details: Jehovah’s Witnesses Women in Nazi Concentration Camps. A Contribution to the Characteristics of Women’s Communities in KZs

Provider:Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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Title:
Jehovah’s Witnesses Women in Nazi Concentration Camps. A Contribution to the Characteristics of Women’s Communities in KZs
Creator:
Czarnecka, Barbara
Description:
The article describes Jehovah’s Witnesses women as one of less remembered groups among victims of the Nazi regime. What is pointed out, first of all, is the state of research ontheir history, especially pertaining to their camp experience, Western literature on the subject and a negligible number of Polish research works devoted to the topic in question, and also some methodological dilemmas related to researching it. The author presents the circumstances of German Jehovah’s Witnesses after Hitler’s seizure of power, their subsequent persecutions, and also – reconstructed on the basis of documents, witnesses reports, and the members of persecuted group themselves – the fate of female followers of this religion (“the purple triangles”) in concentration camps. The author’s main points of focus are, described by witnesses/beholders/onlookers of the events, acts and attitudes of “the purple triangles” marked by strong spirituality, at the same time unbreakable/intransigent in their defiance of/against violence and the authorities’ orders. (Everybody knew that Jehovah’s Witnesses could have basically “sign off” from the camp by putting their signature at the bottom of a declaration that they would renounce their faith and cease to practise their religion.) Such a defiance may be better understood, the author claims, by interpreting it in the light of the anthropological concept of emotional communities.
Object availability:
free access
Date:
2020.11.22
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
Polish
Source:
Narracje o Zagładzie [Narrations of the Shoah]; No 6 (2020): Narrations of the Shoah 2020, no. 6: The Shoah and other genocides; 234-250;
Narracje o Zagładzie; Nr 6 (2020): Narracje o Zagładzie 2020, nr 6: Zagłada wobec innych ludobójstw; 234-250;
2451-2133;
2450-4424
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press
Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/NoZ/article/view/10365/7998
Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/NoZ/article/view/10365 ;
10.31261/NoZ.2020.06.12
Data provider:
Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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