Personal Belongings
'Personal belongings. Stories about clothing in concentration and death camps' by Polish writer, journalist and cultural anthropologist Karolina Sulej is a unique study of life in the camps through the lens of clothing and personal items - those that accompanied people even in the most inhuman conditions.
The author shows how clothing - a seemingly ordinary element of everyday life - became a symbol of the struggle to preserve identity, dignity and humanity in border situations. Based on archival material, survivors' accounts and historical sources, Sulej talks about the role that things played in the context of corporeality, culture and interpersonal relations. 'Personal Belongings' is a moving and deeply humanistic look at a story in which clothes become testimony to suffering, resistance and inner strength.