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100	1	0	_aMailänder, Elissa _eauthor
245	0	0	_aConflicting memories: History, testimony, and a hanging at the Majdanek Camp in 1943
260			_c2018.
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520			_aStarting with the occurrence of a hanging that took place in the women’s section of the Majdanek concentration camp during the summer of 1943, this article analyses the depositions made by survivors of the camp before the Court of Appeal of Dusseldorf (1975-1981). In the absence of any written documentation, prosecutors in the Majdanek trial relied exclusively on the testimonies of survivors, which became problematic given that although all women prisoners of the camp had been forced to attend the execution, they did not all claim to have witnessed the same things. Examining survivors’ depositions from a strictly epistemological perspective, this article explores the heuristic value of such a highly ambiguous source. The triangulation of survivors’ testimonies with other sources allows us to shed light on the complex dynamics that operated within the society of the concentration camp, as well as on the ambivalent and contradictory nature of the depositions.
690			_aviolence
690			_atrial
690			_aconcentration camp
690			_atestimony
690			_ahistory of the everyday
786	0		_nVingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire | o 139 | 3 | 2018-07-10 | p. 153-163 | 0294-1759
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-vingtieme-siecle-revue-d-histoire-2018-3-page-153?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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