
The article transposes the metaphor of “layers of vulnerability” proposed by Florencia Luna and, more broadly, reflects on the so-called vulnerable groups within the realities of Nazi concentration camps. Academic reflection regarding vulnerability, wartime sexuality, and sexual violence is used to critically discuss the condition of one of the most marginalized categories of prisoners: so-called pipels. Examples drawn from the discourse of the dominant group (former Polish political prisoners), including a philippic of a Polish pipel found in one of the memoirs, serve to illustrate the situational and structural dimensions of vulnerability faced by young prisoners like him. When appropriately contextualized, these sources demonstrate that the vulnerability of pipels as a minority group becomes evident even in mediated representations of their experiences.
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