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The aim of this article is to outline the main problems connected with the socio-cultural contexts and formal shape of women's Holocaust autobiographies. In the memoirs or diaries of the Polish-Jewish women survivors the typical features of the genre (women's biographies) are subject to considerable alteration: some of them do not appear at all, while others, usually marginal, acquire a constitutive...