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Skratta eller gråta : humor i koncentrationsläger / Bertil Neuman.
- Title
- Skratta eller gråta : humor i koncentrationsläger / Bertil Neuman.
- Author
- Neuman, Bertil, 1921-
- Publication
- Stockholm : Carlsson, ©2005.
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- Description
- 175 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- In death camps like Treblinka, Majdanek, and Sobibór, as well as for many of the deportees to Auschwitz, humor became impossible. But when death was not imminent and there was room for hope for more than one person, there was also laughter. Describes organized forms of humor in Westerbork and Theresienstadt, where prominent Jewish theater and cabaret artists presented shows, balancing between the inmates' expectations and the tolerance of the camp leaders. Discusses the moral dilemma of the foremost Jewish artist, Kurt Gerron, who was put in charge of the Nazi propaganda film showing Theresienstadt as a model ghetto before being deported and killed in 1944. In Auschwitz, Viktor Frankl survived by cultivating humor as a way of communicating with other prisoners. Argues that humor in the camps, whether ironic or self-deprecating, increased the Jews' sense of self-worth and dignity. Laughter was a form of rebellion.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Humor
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-173) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9172036516
- 9789172036512
- OCLC
- 217259265
- SCSB-12113679
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library