Peace & Justice Lunch Talk - "Autograph Books as Holocaust Objects"

When Jewish girls were deported to concentration and labor camps during the Holocaust, they often brought small objects with them. One type of object was the "autograph book," a very small bound set of blank pages. Before the war, a young person was supposed to collect sayings, poems, and drawings from friends by circulating these books. We have found that young people circulated them inside spaces of persecution, such as camps. What did people write and draw, inside camps? Why did girls risk harm to secretly carry and circulate these books? What do these items tell us about girlhood and the Holocaust?

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