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Deciphering the Suffering of Women in Renia’s Diary

Isha Srishti Panna, PhD Scholar and
Dr. M. Raja Vishwanathan, M.A., M.Phil., PhD


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Abstract

The experience of Holocaust was a prolonged experience of trauma for the victims, which created a routine of terror, fear, and disintegration in them. These have been recorded in their autobiographies or biographies in detail. Such life writings are subjective accounts of incidents or events from a perspective different from that of mere historical documentation of an event. Renia’s Diary is a journal written by a teen victim of the events as they had been happening during the time of war, which contains the journaling of her life before the atrocities started and then also during the suffering and her attempted escape. As Amos Goldberg points out, the purpose of children’s diaries has less to do with documentation and more to do with the internal and emotional dialogue. This paper attempts to interpret the diary to analyse the suffering of women.

Keywords: Renia’s Diary, Holocaust, Life Narratives, Diaries.

Introduction

Diaries and memoirs provide direct insight into the horrors of the Holocaust through first person narrative. Writing about their experience not only provides a subjective account of the events but also gives space to voice out emotions. As Leena Kurvet-Käosaar points out what Gilmore says about

Autobiographical representations of trauma make an invaluable contribution to the study of literature and culture. They offer indispensable eyewitness accounts of large-scale and everyday violence and, through their elaboration of specific scenes of terror and trauma, provide an anti-dote to universalizing narratives about evil, suffering and history. (305)

Everyone suffered the same event, but it was experienced differently by different individuals, this experience differing from gender to gender as well. Samuel Totten reiterates a similar idea in his introduction to Plight and Fate of Women During and Following Genocide when he writes:

The plight and fate of female victims during the course of genocide is both similar to and, in some respects, radically and profoundly different from their male counterparts. During the course of genocide, female victims, like males, suffer demonization, ostracism, discrimination, and the deprivation of their basic human rights. Likewise, they are often rounded up, deported, and killed. But, unlike most men, they have also been subjected to rape, gang rape, and mass rape. (1)

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Isha Srishti Panna, PhD Scholar
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
National Institute of Technology Warangal
Telangana, India 506004
is21hsrer02@student.nitw.ac.in

Dr. M. Raja Vishwanathan, M.A., M.Phil., PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
National Institute of Technology Warangal
Telangana, India 506004
vishwanathan@nitw.ac.in
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