Survivors' accounts
TitleSurvivors' accounts
Author
Call number940.5318/0385
Object number06034aa
Place of publicationOxford, England
PublisherOxford University Press
Year of publication
2010
Physical descriptionpp414-427
MaterialArticle
Series titleOxford handbooks
ISBN9780199211869
NotesArticle from the book ' The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies' pp414-427
Description
Greenspan traces the history of survivors' recounting from the testimony-gathering projects immediately after liberation to the emergence of survivors in the public role of 'witness' in recent decades. He reviews the use of these narratives in historiography. Survivor accounts include reflection on the processes of remembering and retelling