Holocaust memory in a post-survivor world: bearing lasting witness
TítuloHolocaust memory in a post-survivor world: bearing lasting witness
Autor
Call number940.5318/0546
Número del objeto10607ac
Lugar de publicaciónHoboken, New Jersey, United States
EditorialWiley
Año de publicación
2020
Paginaciónpp519-536
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'A companion to the Holocaust' pp519-536
Descripción
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