Witnessing unrelenting grief
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Witnessing unrelenting grief
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number155.937/0001
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]11644d
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Seattle, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]University of Washington Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2016
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp47-58
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
NotesArticle from Facing death: confronting mortality in the Holocaust and ourselves
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Bearing witness is an ambiguous release. At what cost do we ask a survivor to relive brutality, fear and loss? There can be no authentic history without survivor testimony. The listener must know the facts of the Holocaust and listen for the silences that will contextualize the survivor's experiences. The pain of remembering evokes the pain of grieving