Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival
In 1946, a Russian-born American psychologist named David P. Boder toured displaced-persons  camps throughout Western Europe, interviewing victims of the Nazi terror, most of them Jews. His  published reports were not widely circulated, writes editor Donald Niewyk, and in any event few people  wanted to talk or hear about the Holocaust so soon after it had ended. With the passage of half a century  and the passing of the generation of Shoah, Boder's reports, collected inFresh Wounds, stand as  valuable documents in the world's memory. His interviewees talk about their years in slavery, of disease  and death, and of the daily work of living with their Nazi captors. Many of the interviewees went on to live  in the United States, and in Israel, where they founded kibbutzim.