Else Dormitzer’s Theresienstädter Bilder (1945): Poetry, Testimony, and the Holocaust

Sandra Alfers

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Else Dormitzer’s Theresienstädter Bilder (1945): Poetry, Testimony, and the Holocaust

Sandra Alfers

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The year 2015 marks the 70 th anniversary of Else Dormitzer’s publication Theresienstädter Bilder , a collection of German-language poetry written during the author’s imprisonment in the Theresienstadt ghetto. By analyzing the modalities and discursive entanglements that constitute the hybrid nature of poetic texts produced by prisoners in Theresienstadt, I show how Dormitzer’s poetry from the Holocaust can be read within a testimonial framework and outside of it, and why such a reading is important.

Original language	American English
Journal	Études Arméniennes Contemporaines
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.800
State	Published - 2015

Keywords

Else Dormitzer
Holocaust poetry
Theresienstadt
German literature
Testimony

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Arts and Humanities
German Language and Literature
European History

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Else Dormitzer’s Theresienstädter Bilder (1945): Poetry, Testimony, and the Holocaust

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