The doll's house: the horror of girls forced into prostitution in concentration camps

The doll's house: the horror of girls forced into prostitution in concentration camps

“La casa delle bambole” is the story of little Daniella who just wanted to go on a school trip.

The experiences lived by a fourteen-year-old Jewish woman, a story that takes place first in the ghetto of a small Polish town, then in a labor camp and finally in a prostitution camp. The doll's house tells of all those Jewish women who, once deported, were destined to amuse the soldiers in the "fields of joy"





An author who for a long time signed himself with the numbers tattooed on his left arm with which he was identified by the Germans: he is Ka-tzetnik 135633, who wrote pages of disarming simplicity, exactly as much as the terror he describes in them. Among these, “La casa delle bambole” is the story of little Daniella who just wanted to go on a school trip.

Using a euphemism used by labor camp prisoners to refer to the "privileged" ones who received food and could feed the illusion of surviving a tragedy, Ka-tzetnik 135633 tells the story of two brothers, Harry, the eldest, and the sweet Daniella, the second of three children, in a Poland ravaged by Nazism.

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They, little more than children, find themselves catapulted into the horror of not being able to have a normal life with their family anymore. And in the infinite horror of having to surrender one's body to others, without the slightest possibility of saying a word.

The plot

Daniella is 14 and ready, carefree, for a school trip with her classmates and teachers. The destination is the same city where Harry lives, but in an instant a German raid turns that day into a nightmare: it is the beginning of the end. Daniella is captured, taken to a ghetto and put to work in a workshop, cutting the clothes of Jews who have ended up in the fields to find out if they are hiding coins or other precious objects.

Harry works in another factory and every week he visits her bringing her something to eat, until he is suddenly sent to one of the concentration camps. Daniella is desperate, soon after she too is deported again and in the so-called "Field of Joy", apparently less squalid than that of work, with the huts painted in pink, a lot of cleanliness and flowers.



Here Daniella, like other girls, is subjected to experiments, locked in a cage, while under her breasts a series of numbers that will replace her name are tattooed. She and then she was sent to carry out her humiliating task: to give "joy" to the German soldiers on their way to the Russian front.

A prostitution.

The author

Ka-tzetnik 135633 Yehiel De-Nur, Hebrewized surname of the original Polish Feiner, only in 1961, when he was summoned by the Tel Aviv court, to testify against Otto Adolf Eichman, did he let everyone know his identity (video below), as well as to describe Auschwitz as:

A planet where its inhabitants had no name, where they did not live and did not die, where they had no family or children, but only a number.

De-Nur was accused of dwelling in his descriptions of sex and cruelty (the first edition dates back to 1955), but this is precisely the point: those pages describe exactly what happened in the concentration camps. Another book by the author is The phoenix coming from the concentration camp. From Auschwitz to the promised land.

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