Abstract: Research on the different ways in which the experience of concentration camps are
transmitted has revealed the existence of a novel type of language. The Lager gave birth to
new language codes which every prisoner understood and integrated, as ordinary language
was incapable of expressing this reality, this unspeakable reality. This article, written from
an enunciative and pragmatic standpoint, questions the place of neologisms in the accounts
given by the survivors of Nazi concentration and extermination camps.
