The significance of testimony as a means of investigating camp spaces is indicated by the extensive literature analysing the eyewitness accounts of Nazi camp survivors. This paper builds on ongoing methodological debates in geographies of the Holocaust to suggest that witness testimony provides a valuable and multifaceted resource for investigating diverse aspects of camp spatiality. After offering an overview of the kinds of camp spaces emergent in camp survivor testimony, the paper draws on the writings of Auschwitz survivor Charlotte Delbo in order to describe and illustrate two methodological approaches to witness accounts. The first is based on the irreplaceable value of survivor testimony as a source of first-hand observational data, with Delbo's unconventional descriptions of camp spaces and spatialities connecting with numerous core themes in geographical work on the Nazi regime and camp spatialities more generally. The second focuses instead on the capacity of witnessing to disturb the incorporation of testimonial descriptions into academic narratives, and in turn provoke new geographical questions and imaginaries in response to the singular act of testimony.

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见证证人：回应营地的证言空间

大量文献分析了纳粹集中营幸存者的目击证词，这表明证词作为调查集中营空间的一种手段的重要性。本文建立在大屠杀地理上正在进行的方法论辩论的基础上，表明证人证词为调查营地空间的各个方面提供了宝贵的多方面资源。在概述了集中营幸存者证词中出现的各种集中营空间之后，本文借鉴了奥斯威辛集中营幸存者夏洛特·德尔博的著作，以描述和说明证人陈述的两种方法论方法。第一个是基于幸存者证词作为第一手观察数据来源的不可替代价值，Delbo' 对集中营空间和空间性的非传统描述，与纳粹政权和集中营空间性的地理研究中的许多核心主题相关联。第二个则侧重于见证干扰将见证描述纳入学术叙事的能力，并反过来引发新的地理问题和想象以回应单一的见证行为。