Choiceless choices

"Choiceless choices" is a term coined by Lawrence Langer in his 1982 book Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit, to describe the no-win situations faced by Jews during the Holocaust.

References

  1. ↑ Brown, Adam (2010). "Confronting 'choiceless choices' in Holocaust videotestimonies: Judgement, 'privileged' Jews, and the role of the interviewer". Continuum. 24 (1): 79–90. doi:10.1080/10304310903362783. S2CID 144913992.
  2. ↑ Kühne, Thomas; Rein, Mary Jane, eds. (2020). Agency and the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Debórah Dwork. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-38998-7.
  3. ↑ Browning, Christopher R. (2011). Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-33887-4.
  4. ↑ Levitsky, Holli (2013). "Their Numbers Have Been Recorded: Choiceless Choice and the Ethics of Sara Nomberg-Przytyk". Medicine and Law. 32 (2): 191–203. PMID 23967793.
  5. ↑ Sloin, Andrew (2018). "Choice, Politics, and the Anomalies of Survival". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 36 (1): 232–238. doi:10.1353/sho.2018.0014. S2CID 149057668.
  6. ↑ Finkel, Evgeny (2017). Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-8492-6.

7. Tadeusz Borowski’s ‘This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen’ Translated by Barbara Vedder, Penguin Classics, 2009.