From survivor to witness: voices from the Shoah

Concludes that those who are in the business of retrieving, storing and preserving large collections of testimonies would do well to reflect on some of the possible flawed uses of this vast array offered by the survivors of the Shoah. Among such problematic uses are the conversion of the political into the soley psychological, and the isolation of individual voices, the partitioning into one-person units of the collective memory of the survivors whose testimony, one at a time, or taken as a whole, is said to constitute the 'true' history of the catastrophe.