Lo sguardo sugli Ebrei, lo sguardo degli Ebrei nelle testimonianze di sopravvissuti al campo di concentramento di Mauthausen

Abstract

This article examines the self-perception of Jews and the perception by others in a concentration camp that was not built for the genocide of European Jews, but for the gradual extermination of domestic and foreign opponents of the regime through forced labour and malnutrition. How did the survivors remember the presence of Jews in a camp for political prisoners? Which factors determined positive and negative judgments? How did the Jews, who constantly feared being discovered and murdered, perceive themselves in relation to the majority of the others? The study is based on autobiographical texts in French by forty-eight French survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp and five Eastern European Jews who emigrated to France after the war.