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This article discusses the testimony of Leon Weliczker (The Brigade of Death), who was at the Sonderkommando in the Janowska camp. Describing the daily focus on the removal of corpses Weliczker simultaneously reveals his ways of survival. Discourse on trauma focuses on its subsequent impact, in the case of the analyzed text we are dealing with an attempt to record the traumatic state. Using the psychological context, the author shows how Weliczker tried to minimize the impact of trauma using various mechanisms of controlling and displacing emotions.
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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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