Holocaust memory in a post-survivor world: bearing lasting witness
TitleHolocaust memory in a post-survivor world: bearing lasting witness
Author
Call number940.5318/0546
Object number10607ac
Place of publicationHoboken, New Jersey, United States
PublisherWiley
Year of publication
2020
Physical descriptionpp519-536
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'A companion to the Holocaust' pp519-536
Description
There is an increasing sense of urgency in relation to how the Holocaust will be remembered in a post survivor world. Concerns about methods of remembrance are longstanding. Examines testimony produced by the "Sonderkommando" at Birkenau including photographs and a series of writings composed between 1943-44 and then concealed in the grounds of the crematoria. These testimonies were endeavors to "remember" events that the death squads did not expect to survive