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- Title
Szymon Syrkus: Die Stadt imaginieren im Angesicht der Katastrophe.
- Authors
Kohlrausch, Martin
- Abstract
The article reports on letters written by the Polish architect Szymon Syrkus to his wife Helena Syrkus during his imprisonment in the Auschwitz, Poland, extermination camp from October 1942 to January 1945. Particular focus is on Syrkus's epistolary remarks on architecture and urbanism seen through the lens of the extreme conditions in the concentration camp combined with his professional career prior to World War II. Syrkus's visions of architecture for minimum housing in post-war Warsaw, Poland are said to be surprisingly optimistic conceptions.
- Subjects
WARSAW (Poland); POLAND; SYRKUS, Szymon; WORLD War II; WORLD War II Polish personal narratives; DETENTION of persons; CONCENTRATION camps; URBAN renewal; SYRKUS, Helena; ARCHITECTURE; AUSCHWITZ concentration camp
- Publication
Historische Anthropologie, 2010, Vol 18, Issue 3, p404
- ISSN
0942-8704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7788/ha.2010.18.3.404