Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 342 g
Holocaust Testimony and Its Transformations
Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 342 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-977253-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Among sources on the Holocaust, survivor testimonies are the least replaceable and most complex, reflecting both the personality of the narrator and the conditions and perceptions prevailing at the time of narration. Scholars, despite their aim to challenge memory and fill its gaps, often use testimonies uncritically or selectively-mining them to support generalizations. This book represents a departure, bringing Holocaust experts Atina Grossmann, Konrad Kwiet, Wendy Lower, Jürgen Matthäus, and Nechama Tec together to analyze the testimony of one Holocaust survivor. Born in Bratislava at the end of World War I, Helen "Zippi" Spitzer Tichauer was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. One of the few early arrivals to survive the camp and the death marches, she met her future husband in a DP camp, and they moved to New York in the 1960s. Beginning in 1946, Zippi devoted many hours to talking with a small group of scholars about her life. Her wide-ranging interviews are uniquely suited to raise questions on the meaning and use of survivor testimony. What do we know today about the workings of a death camp? How willing are we to learn from the experiences of a survivor, and how much is our perception preconditioned by standardized images? What are the mechanisms, aims, and pitfalls of storytelling? Can survivor testimonies be understood properly without guidance from those who experienced the events? This book's new, multifaceted approach toward Zippi's unique story combined with the authors' analysis of key aspects of Holocaust memory, its forms and its functions, makes it a rewarding and fascinating read.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
Weitere Infos & Material
- Foreword
- Mark Roseman
- Introduction: What Does it Mean? Holocaust Testimony and the Story of Helen "Zippi" Tichauer
- Chapter 1: Designing Survival: A Graphic Artist in Birkenau
- Konrad Kwiet
- Chapter 2: Recapturing the Past: Individuality and Cooperation in Auschwitz
- Nechama Tec
- Chapter 3: Displacing Memory: The Transformations of an Early Interview
- Jürgen Matthäus
- Chapter 4: Living On: Remembering Feldafing
- Atina Grossmann
- Chapter 5: Distant Encounter: An Auschwitz Survivor in the College Classroom
- Wendy Lower
- Conclusion: What Have We Learned?
- Appendix: English Translation of an Interview
- Conducted by David Boder with Helen Tichauer
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index
