Elissa Mailänder, Female SS Guards and workaday violence. The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944, translated by Patricia Szobar by Nicolas Patin

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Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916 by Khatchig Mouradian

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Les récits livresques de survivance sur le camp de la Neue Bremm by Jacques Walter

“…Three hypotheses are put forth : these narratives constitute a source of information about the modalities of perception by the detainees of the functioning of the camp up until now studied from a factual point of view ; as the detainees were to be sent to « larger » camps, these writings offer a condensed vision of a first contact with the concentration camp universe, close to an « initiation » narrative ; since the year 2000, we have witnessed an editorial autonomization of certain narratives caused by more than simply the personality of the author. …”
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Communist Armenian Women’s History by Lerna Ekmekcioglu

“…While LAS was arrested a month before the liberation of Paris and died in the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp soon afterwards, her comrades decided to continue the fight though on a different platform. …”
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Des femmes allemandes au service de la guerre : participations actives aux politiques raciales nationales-socialistes, à la déportation et au génocide (1939-1945) by Elissa Mailänder

“…The same year, Elissa Mailänder published her work on the violence of female concentration camp guards in occupied Poland [German: Gewalt im Dienstalltag]. …”
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L’immortel Bartfuss, un récit lazaréen ? by Marie-Christine Pavis

“…In the 1950s, Jean Cayrol, a survivor of the Mauthausen camp, creates the concept of “Lazarus literature” designating stories like his own, dealing with the return of the convicts and the life of the survivors of concentration camps. The main interest of these stories resides in their witness value due to a double distance: temporal and fictional. …”
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Genre et engagement dans la Résistance : l’exemple d’Anne-Marie Walters by Guillaume Pollack

“…Many of them were arrested and killed in the concentration camps. This episode fascinated English people and many books that told their stories were written in England. …”
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