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In search of the rescuer in the Holocaust

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TitleIn search of the rescuer in the Holocaust

Author

Dori Laub

Call numberP940.5318/258

Object number10315

Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States

Publisher Berghahn Journals, Inc.

Year of publication

2013

MaterialLoose-leaf

NotesArticle from the journal 'Historical reflections = Réflexions historiques' Vol.39 Issue 2

Description

This article attempts to demonstrate that remembering the rescuer in genocide is fraught with conflict. Data taken from psychoanalytic practice and the arena of public discourse is presented to illustrate these crises in remembering. The forgetting of German rescuers in German public discourse is particularly thought provoking. The vicissitudes of memories of the successful Rosenstrasse demonstrations by the Gentile wives of the two thousand Jewish workers arrested in the Fabrikaktion in 1943 in Berlin is discussed in detail, including the present-day Historikerstreit regarding the “real merit“ of these demonstrations. Holocaust survivors' memories of being rescued by Germans are also addressed. Finally, a tentative psychoanalytic conceptualization of the conflict inherent in remembering and acknowledging such rescue behaviour is attempted.

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