Approaching an Auschwitz survivor : Holocaust testimony and its transformations / edited by Jürgen Matthäus.
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Matthäus, Jürgen, 1959- (redaktör/utgivare)
- ISBN 9780199772537
- Publicerad: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2010
- Copyright: ©2009
- Engelska x, 211 pages
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Serie: The Oxford oral history series
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- What Does it Mean? Holocaust testimony and the story of Helen "Zippi" Tichauer -- Designing survival : a graphic artist in Birkenau / Konrad Kwiet -- Recapturing the past : individuality and cooperation in Auschwitz / Nechama Tec -- Displacing memory : the transformations of an early interview / Jürgen Matthäus -- Living on : remembering Feldafing / Atina Grossmann -- 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.
- "Five Holocaust scholars reflect on the testimony of one survivor, Helen "Zippi" Tichauer and watch her testimony--and scholarly responses to it--evolve over the years"--Provided by publisher.
- "Will be of interest not only to Holocaust scholars but anyone interested in oral history and the elaboration of its cultural significance."--Roger I. Simon, Holocaust Studies.
- 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. Scholarship aims to challenge memory and fill its gaps. At the same time, scholars often use testimonies uncritically or selectively--mining them to support generalizations. This book is a departure, bringing several scholars together to analyze the testimony of one Holocaust survivor. 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. They moved to New York in the 1960s. Since the end of the war, Zippi devoted many hours to talking with a small group of scholars about her life. Zippi's testimony covers a wide range of human experiences in extremis and spans fifty-odd years. It is thus uniquely suited to raise questions on the meaning and use of survivor testimony. What do we know, sixty years after the Nazi era, 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 story-telling? Can survivor testimonies be understood properly without guidance from those who experienced the events? This book, written by established Holocaust scholars who have known Helen Tichauer for years, attempts to approximate survivor testimony and probe the limits of its representation and understanding. Contributors include Atina Grossmann (author, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany, Princeton, 2007), Konrad Kwiet (co-ed., Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust, 2005), Wendy Lower (author, Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memory, Indiana UP, 2007), Nehama Tec (author, Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust, Yale, 2003, and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, OUP, 1993). The book will be of interest to both Holocaust scholars and oral historians. -- Publisher description
Ämnesord
- Förintelsens överlevande (sao)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Holocaust survivors -- Interviews -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence. (LCSH)
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (fast)
- Holocaust survivors -- Interviews. (fast)
- Holocaust survivors (LCSH)
- 1939-1945 (fast)
Genre
- Personal narratives. (lcgft)
- Interviews. (lcgft)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Personnamn
- Tichauer, Helen, 1918-2018.
Institutionsnamn
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Klassifikation
- 940.5318 (DDC)
- Koafh-a.54 (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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