Transformations of Holocaust memory: frames of transmission and mediation

Right after World War II, survivors felt an intense obligation to tell their stories. It became their mission as survivors to become witnesses for those who had died abused, exploited and unnamed in the camps. These acts of witnessing occurred against a backdrop of silence that was hard to penetrate. Their nightmare became true after the war when they discovered that their friends and neighbours were unwilling to listen and preferred to move ahead and leave the past behind