...these victims, who were plunged into a crisis of what we might call "choiceless choice," where crucial decisions did not reflect options between life and...situation that was in no way of the victim's own choosing. 17 Langer's thinking on this subject is guided in part by the Polish critic Andrzej Wirth who, in 1967,...

...him. The ghettos and concentration camps of Nazi Germany were testing grounds for 'choiceless choices, where critical decisions did not reflect options between...both imposed by a situation that was in no way of the victims own choosing'.17 In countless situations, parents were forced to choose between their own lives...

...repeatedly forced defenseless people to make "choiceless choices." Such choices, Lawrence Langer says, "do not reflect options between life and death, but between...a situation that was in no way of the victim's own choosing."17 Such was Lewental's miserable situation. He did not volunteer for the Sonderkommando any...

...„choiceless choice" (eine wahllose Wahl). Für solche Situationen konstatiert Langer: „crucial decisions did not reflect options between life and...that was in no way of the victim's own choosing." (Langer, Versions of Survival, S. 72) 2* Sara R. Horowitz beschreibt diese zwei Erzähltopoi folgendermaßen:...

...Bauer and Rotenstreich, 159. 24. A "choiceless choice," says Langer, is a critical decision that does not "reflect options between life and death, but between...that was in no way of the victim's own choosing." See Lawrence L. Langer, "The Dilemma of Choice in the Deathcamps," in Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical...

...Nazis were forced to exist. Langer writes that they "were plunged into a crisis . . . where crucial decisions did not reflect options between life and...a situation that was in no way of the victim's own choosing.'"'4 We are often reminded that Bonhoeffer's decision to return to Germany in 1939 was made...

...victims, describing them as "plunged into a crisis of what we might call 'choiceless choice/ where crucial decisions did not reflect options between life and...between one form of abnormal response and another" in a nowin situation (VS J2).79 But "crucial moments" present a dramatic exception; in these cases,...

...Spirit (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982), 67-129. Choiceless choices, writes Langer, do not "reflect options between life and death, but between...situation that was in no way of the victim's own choosing" (72). 8. See Terrence Des Pres, The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps (New York: Oxford...

...making a choice."1 Choiceless choices, Langer understands, do not reflect options between good and bad, life and death, but between one form of abnormal response and another, both impossible, imposed by situations not of the victims' own choosing. Kazik's experience in the sewers...

...exist. Langer writes that these unfortunate persons "were plunged into a crisis . . . where crucial decisions did not reflect options between life and...a situation that was in no way of the victim's own choosing."'2 We are often reminded that Bonhoeffer's decision to return to Germany in 1939 was made...