Holocaust and Memory: The Experience of the Holocaust and its Consequences, An Investigation Based on Personal Narratives

Barbara Engelking; Gunnar Paulsson

ISBN 10: 0718501594 / ISBN 13: 9780718501594

Edité par Leicester University Press, 2001

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Holocaust and Memory: The Experience of the Holocaust and its Consequences, An Investigation Based on Personal Narratives
• Éditeur: Leicester University Press
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0718501594
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780718501594
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Poids: 1,6 livre

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Synopsis

Based on interviews with Holocaust survivors, this book describes their life during the war and the sense which they made of it. It assumes that oral testimony is of more value than written, forcing the researcher to take on the role of active participant in a common effort to construct meaning. The book first deals with the differences between wartime experiences of Jews and Poles in occupied Poland, both objectively - stemming from Nazi legislation - and subjectively - stemming from individual experiences, for example on the Aryan side of the ghetto wall where Jews could either be helped or blackmailed by Poles. The largest section of the book reconstructs everyday life in the ghetto, showing a gradual deprivation of legal and moral identity, and finally even of individuality, while also showing heroism and a vivid spriritual and intellectual life.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in Polish to great acclaim and based on interviews with survivors of the Holocaust in Poland, Holocaust and Memory provides a moving description of their life during the war and the sense they made of it. The book begins by looking at the differences between the wartime experiences of Jews and Poles in occupied Poland, both in terms of Nazi legislation and individual experiences. On the Aryan side of the ghetto wall, Jews could either be helped or blackmailed by Poles. The largest section of the book reconstructs everyday life in the ghetto. The psychological consequences of wartime experiences are explored, including interviews with survivors who stayed on in Poland after the war and were victims of anti-Semitism again in 1968. These discussions bring into question some of the accepted survivor stereotypes found in Holocaust literature. A final chapter looks at the legacy of the Holocaust, the problems of transmitting experience and of the place of the Holocaust in Polish history and culture.