The Circulation of Unsanctioned Writing in Labor Camps During World War II: Genre and Gendered Strategies of Resistance

• In Event: Unruly Acts: Polish and Polish Jewish Women Resisting War and Persecution

Abstract

Polish Jewish girls and women in the many forced labor and concentration camps created by the German authorities in World War II engaged, at times, in informal creative and cultural activity when possible. This research examines girls' autograph albums as specific forms of cultural production in which prewar genre expectations of circulation among others to collect inscriptions constituted—in the specific setting of Nazi persecution—a specific type of gendered resistance.

Author

• Janine P Holc, Loyola U Maryland