The article discusses the formation of resistance tactics built by members of the OUN(B) prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp with the active involvement of a psychological and moral factor in the context of looking at the problem of B. Bettelheim and V. Frankl. The theoretical models of both researchers, partly formed based on their own experience as political prisoners of the Nazi concentration camps, emphasize the significant role in the effectiveness of the survival model of preserving the autonomy of thinking, the ability to build reality models alternative to the positions of the regime and maintain motivation, based on the aim, the main condition for which is to get out of the concentration camp. A number of daily activities and routines are also offered to support this psychological model. Long before the probable detention in the concentration camp, a sort of modus vivendi was formed in the OUN(B) based on the usual OUN clandestine tactics and moral and psychological requirements for members of the Organization, which included most of the necessary elements of survival tactics, developed by Bettelheim. One from the most important elements of its was ability of own system of views spreading to another prisoners, what served as the first phase of transformation into wide resistance movement. This leads to an analysis of the mechanisms of resistance of OUN(B) members in Auschwitz, compared to their pre-prisoner tactics and comparison between internal requirements for OUN members and Bettelheim’s survival complex.
Keywords: survival tactics, resistance tactics, monopoly on household decisions, OUN(B), Bandera Group, Auschwitz, concentration camp.
A NETWORK OF OUN(B) MEMBERS' RESISTANCE IMPRISONED IN THE AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP: AN EXAMPLE OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF SURVIVAL TACTICS INTO RESISTANCE TACTICS BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF UNDERGROUND CONFRONTATION
