From victim to survivor: the emergence and development of the Holocaust witness 1941 - 1949

A critical analysis of early eye-witness accounts written by Jews and published between 1941 and 1949. Challenges two popular misconceptions enshrined as the myth of silence. Jews began to record and tell their stories from the outset. During the 'cold war' combined with other factors a 'silence barrier' seemed to be imposed, having been broken at the time of the Eichmann trial.