Rzecz jako przepustka. Samotna ucieczka z Ravensbrück

Item as a pass: Lonely escape from Ravensbrück, in: B. Walęciuk-Dejneka (ed.) Patterns of women’s loneliness – maidens, widows, divorced, Kraków, pp. 77-86. This research represents a case study of Eugenia Kocwa's escape from Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944, in which she was incarcerated for her activity in the resistance movement in 1941. Flights from the camps belonged to an extremely rare instances and almost always would have taken a form of group organized break-outs with an additional support from the outer world. The analyzed phenomenon is the only successful individual escape from Ravensbrück, and deserves therefore meticulous attention. In the analysis author lays strong emphasis on a material aspect of the escape and objects incorporated into it, which properly managed, had a decisive influence on fugitive's success. The article is based on testimonies of Eugenia Kocwa and other Ravensbrück prisoners, and adopts theoretical framework of Erving Goffman's total institutions and dramaturgical model

[Memoirs].

Autobiographical manuscript of Lisa De Curtis, born Heilig, of mixed Jewish and Christian parents. The family lived in Vienna and fled to Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, from where she was deported to Ravensbrueck. After liberation by the Red Army she joined her mother in Ljubljana again. She finally immigrated to the United States.