If he knows to make a child ...: Memories of birth and baby-killing in deferred Jewish testimony narratives

Provides a close reading of postwar testimonies. In confronting 'deferred memory', discusses the most horrific and most repressed of recollections - the stifling and killing of infants in order to preserve the lives of Jews in hiding. In discussing the displacement of memory, the author also points to the ways in which it is gendered, dealing as it does with the issues of maternity and paternity.