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Focussing on prisoner clothing in the Auschwitz concentration camp,
Dress in Auschwitz examines clothing's profound importance to the inmates' physical, psychological, and spiritual survival, through primary sources and survivors' experiences.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction: Auschwitz through the Experience of Dress
1: Studying Dress in Auschwitz: Sources and Approaches
2: Undressing in the Camps: Arrival, Marking and Humiliation
3: Sourcing and Distribution of Camp Dress: Typologies and Variations
4: Extreme Situations: Clothing Practices and Caring for the Self
5: Camp 'Fashions': From Decency to 'Style'
6: Dress for Survival: from Living to Escape
Epilogue
References
Appendices - Abbreviations, Camp Terminology; Testimonies (Archival testimonies, Survivors' Memoirs, Personal Interviews)
Index
Bibliography/References
Appendices
Abbreviations / Camp Terminology
Testimonies: Archival testimonies / Survivors' Memoirs / Personal Interviews
Index
About the author
Sofia Pantouvaki is Professor of Costume Design for Theatre and Film at Aalto University, Finland.
Summary
Focussing on prisoner clothing in the Auschwitz concentration camp, Dress in Auschwitz examines clothing's profound importance to the inmates' physical, psychological, and spiritual survival, through primary sources and survivors’ experiences.
