Memory and the Holocaust

Descendants of Survivors and Family History
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-79121-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern History

The importance of recording testimony of Holocaust survivors is well understood. While empowering the survivor and adding another layer of documentation about the cataclysm, it also serves as a bulwark against Holocaust denial. The same holds true for helping survivors pen their memoirs, or when writing their history. At the same time, this process also impacts upon the person recording the testimony, assisting the survivor in writing his or her memoirs, and certainly upon those who write about the survivors.

What happens when the interviewer, biographer, translator, or memoir transcriber is a child or grandchild of that survivor? This book is based on the premise that a collection of personal narratives of descendants of Holocaust survivors who interviewed their parents\grandparents, wrote their history, or helped them with their memoirs, narratives in which they describe and analyze the impact of these activities on their personal trajectories, can greatly contribute to our understand of the Holocaust and, particularly, its aftermath. Each of the book's 14 chapters is a personal narrative by a child or grandchild of Holocaust survivors who analyzes the impact that their interviewing, writing about, or writing with their surviving parents\ grandparents had upon their lives.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor

Clark, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and David Clark

The Second Generation

Chapter 1

"Buffalo Bill from Bochnia in Auschwitz": A Performative Memoir in Four Acts

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

Chapter 2

Scraps and Souls

Anita Grosz

Chapter 3

Witness By Proxy

Jacqueline Heller

Chapter 4

Mir Zennen Do: The Memory Motto of a Living Family

Ruchel Jarach-Sztern

Chapter 5

Passing the Baton: My Parents, Our Family Holocaust History, and Me

Naomi Levy

Chapter 6

My Mother's Memoirs: A Joint Effort

Marian Liebemann

Chapter 7

Homemade Testimony – Researching and Processing My Greek Parents' Holocaust Testimonies

Shmuel Refael

Chapter 8

Letters, Life, and Legacies – Writing the Story of My Mother, Karen Gershon

Naomi Anne Shmuel

Chapter 9

Grateful Every Day

Ruth Finkel Wade

Chapter 10

First, Second, Third Generation

Dov Eichenwald

The Third Generation

Chapter 11

Conversations With My Dead Grandfather

Madelaine Wolf Bukiet

Chapter 12

Remember and Not Forget? The Study of Jewish Law and Theater and the Holocaust

Yaniv Shimon Goldberg

Chapter 13

Inherited Courage: A Third Generation Perspective on my Partisan Grandparents

Daniela Ozacky Stern

Chapter 14

Connecting the Dots: Talking to My Grandparents About the Holocaust

Gadi Winter

Chapter 15

Epilogue

David Clark

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Tydor Baumel- Schwartz is the Director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar- Ilan University, Israel. She has written and edited numerous books and articles about the Holocaust and its aftermath.

David Clark completed his PhD on Jewish museums (London Metropolitan University). He co- edited, together with Maria Kousis and Tom Selwyn, Contested Mediterranean Spaces (2011). He also co- edited with Sommaruga Howard The Journey Home, Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past (2021).