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2017 | 46 | 8 | 205-217

Article title

Survival strategy. The Death Brigade by Leon Weliczker

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Abstracts

EN
The article discusses the account by Leon Weliczker (The Death Brigade) who belonged to the Sonderkommando in the Janowska camp. When describing everyday life centring on the removal of corpses, Weliczker also revealed his own methods for survival. Trauma discourse focusses on trauma’s later influence, in the case of the analysed text that applies to an attempt at recording a continuing traumatic state. In applying the psychological context, the author indicates how Weliczker tried to minimise the influence of trauma by utilising various mechanisms for controlling and suppressing emotions.

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Volume

46

Issue

8

Pages

205-217

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Dates

published
2018-05-11

Contributors

  • Associate Professor; Chair of Literary Semiotics, Institute of Polish Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

References

  • Briere John, Scott Catherin, Podstawy terapii traumy. Diagnoza i metody terapeutyczne, trans. P. Nowak, Instytut Psychologii Zdrowia. Polskie Towarzystwo Psychologiczne, Warsaw 2010.
  • Greif Gideon, „…płakaliśmy bez łez…”. Relacje byłych więźniów żydowskiego Sonderkommando z Auschwitz, trans. Jan Kapłon, Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, Państwowe MuzeumAuschwitz–Birkenau, Warsaw–Oświęcim 2007.
  • Łosiak Władysław, Psychologia emocji, Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne, Warsaw 2007.
  • Natura emocji. Podstawowe zagadnienia, Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson (eds.), trans. B. Wojciszke, Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne, Gdańsk 2002.
  • Weliczker Leon, Brygada śmierci (Sonderkommando 1005). Pamiętnik, Ośrodek „Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN”, Lublin 2012,
  • Żywulska Krystyna, Przeżyłam Oświęcim, tCHu, Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz–Birkenau, Warsaw 2008.

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Publication order reference

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