Oral History and the War: The Nazi Concentration Camp Experience in a Biographical-Narrative Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783631748664 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 442 str.

Piotr Filipkowski

Opis

The book offers interpretations of oral history interviews with Polish survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp system. Historical, sociological and anthropological interpretations of these accounts provide insights into the variety of Polish camp experiences, memories and narratives considered in a broader biographical perspective.

Spis treści

Interpretation of oral history biographical interviews - Polish concentration camp survivors - Mauthausen concentration camp - Memories and narratives embedded in broader social and cultural contexts - Oral history and the war - Leon Ceglarz - Zygmunt Podhalanski - Roman Strój

O autorze

Piotr Filipkowski is a sociologist and oral historian, who works as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is co-founder of the biggest Polish Oral History Archive at the History Meeting House in Warsaw. He currently publishes mainly on oral history theory and practice, as well as on qualitative methods in social sciences.