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The concentration camp brothels in memory
Author(s): Bogue, Nicole
Date: 2016
Topics: Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Commemoration, Jewish Museums, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: This paper examines the differing representations of the history of concentration camp brothels. It examines how two specific sites of memory, Ravensbrück Gedenkstätte and Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum have taken dichotomous approaches in whether to explore this difficult and marginal experiences of around two hundred women who were forced to serve in prisoner camp brothels. Building on research visits to both sites in 2013, it evaluates and argues that differing national sensitivities, roles the topographies play in memory and history and the pressures of visitor numbers to the sites are fundamental in these juxtaposing representations.