Book Chapter
Jadwiga Pinderska-Lech, Bożena Karwowska. “Publishing: Preserving the Voices of Victims and Disseminating Historical Research. ” Auschwitz: History, Place and People. An Academic Guide to the Camp Complex. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2021, p. 257-268.
Educational Resources
- Auschwitz Studies Historical Outline and List of Contents by Jacek Lachendro
- Mapping A Woman’s Journey in Auschwitz by Lisa Rutloh
- The Holocaust in Comics by Sidney Singh
- Misrepresentations within Historical Fiction by Indigo Ward
Discussion Prompts
- What does the mandate of the Auschwitz museum’s publishing house? Are all manuscripts published? What are the reasons for not publishing a manuscript? What is the museum’s perspective on Holocaust fiction? How is Holocaust fiction problematic? How does this fiction affect the collective memory of the Holocaust?
- What are the distinctive qualities that separate historical fiction from memoirs based on a historical event?
- If there can be historical inaccuracies in memoirs, how does this differ from a work of fiction?
Bibliography
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Kerman, Judith, and John Edgar Browning. The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film: Critical Perspectives. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.
Kluger, Ruth. 2013. “The Shoah in Fiction. Lecture.” 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsvdKTU5n4M.
Lengyel, Olga. Five Chimneys. Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1947.
Szmaglewska, Seweryna. Smoke over Birkenau. Translated by Jadwiga Rynas. Henry Holt & Co.: New York, 1947.
Zarembina, Natalia, Andrzej Krzysztof Kunert, and Barbara Gadomska. Auschwitz: obóz śmierci = Auschwitz : the Camp of Death. Warszawa: Edippresse Polska, 2005.
