Voglio essere presente come vita : Liana Millu et sa voix singulière de Birkenau

• Authors: Joanna Teklik

Title variants

EN

Voglio essere presente come vita : Liana Millu, a singular voice from Birkenau

• Languages of publication: IT

Abstracts

IT

Contemporary research on remembrance yields more and more women’s concentration camp testimonies and evidence of their unique character. The names quoted in these materials include Liana Millu (1914-2005), an Italian women of Jewish descent, an Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück prisoner. Her work proves that the experience of trauma, though unimaginable, is utterable. Millu resorts to literary fiction to outline life stories of Birkenau women, their typical problems, ways of dealing with tham, as well as the survival strategies thay employed. Liana Millu’s testimony is an unusual attempt to show how women experienced the trauma of the camp.

EN

Contemporary research on remembrance yields more and more women’s concentration camp testimonies and evidence of their unique character. The names quoted in these materials include Liana Millu (1914-2005), an Italian women of Jewish descent, an Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrück prisoner. Her work proves that the experience of trauma, though unimaginable, is utterable. Millu resorts to literary fiction to outline life stories of Birkenau women, their typical problems, ways of dealing with tham, as well as the survival strategies thay employed. Liana Millu’s testimony is an unusual attempt to show how women experienced the trauma of the camp.

Keywords

IT

World War II; Liana Millu; Holocaust Literature; Testimony; Concentration Camp; World War II; Liana Millu; Holocaust Literature; Testimony; Concentration Camp

EN

World War II; Liana Millu; Holocaust Literature; Testimony; Concentration Camp

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 15-24

Dates

published

2018-11-22

Contributors

author

Joanna Teklik

• Université Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2018.453.002