Designing survival: a graphic artist in Birkenau

Konrad Kwiet

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389159.003.0002

Designing survival: a graphic artist in Birkenau

Konrad Kwiet^*

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Abstract

This chapter analyzes what appears as the most prominent feature in Zippi's body of testimony. Helping with the registration and marking of prisoners became her key role in the Auschwitz women's camp; her account of her adolescence and training shows that from early on she had a special eye and interest for the visual and the organization of space. A deep description of her story from her arrival in Auschwitz in spring 1942 to the last days as prisoner during the war reveals continuities and caesuras in her perception of reality and her attempts to survive.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor
Subtitle of host publication	Holocaust Testimony and its Transformations
Editors	Jürgen Matthäus
Place of Publication	Oxford; New York
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	7-26
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199866694
ISBN (Print)	9780195389159, 0195389158
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389159.003.0002
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2009

Keywords

Adolescence
Graphic art
Holocaust
Perception
Training

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