Title: Holocaust testimonies : the ruins of memory /
Authors: Langer, Lawrence L.; Mazal Holocaust Collection
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives History and criticism; Holocaust survivors Psychology; Jews history Europe.; Torture psychology; Europe
Abstract: An analysis of the unique ways in which oral testimony of survivors contributes to our understanding of the Holocaust; sheds light on the forms and functions of memory as victims relive devastating experiences of pain, humiliation, and loss.
Contents: Deep memory : the buried self -- Anguished memory : the divided self -- Humiliated memory : the besieged self -- Tainted memory : the impromptu self -- Unheroic memory : the diminished self.