Holocaust Testimonies
Title | Holocaust Testimonies PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence L. Langer |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1993-01-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300173710 |
Annotation This important and original book is the first sustained analysis of the unique ways in which oral testimony of survivors contributes to our understanding of the Holocaust. Langer argues that it is necessary to deromanticize the survival experience and that to burden it with accolades about the "indomitable human spirit" is to slight its painful complexity and ambivalence.
Holocaust Testimonies
Title | Holocaust Testimonies PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph J. Preil |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813529479 |
The book concludes by relating how survivors rebuilt their lives - often very successfully - in the New World."--BOOK JACKET.
Reframing Holocaust Testimony
Title | Reframing Holocaust Testimony PDF eBook |
Author | Noah Shenker |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2015-08-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253017173 |
“An invaluable resource” for individuals and institutions documenting the experiences of Holocaust survivors—or other historical testimony—on video (Journal of Jewish Identities). Institutions that have collected video testimonies from the few remaining Holocaust survivors are grappling with how to continue their mission to educate and commemorate. Noah Shenker calls attention to the ways that audiovisual testimonies of the Holocaust have been mediated by the institutional histories and practices of their respective archives. Shenker argues that testimonies are shaped not only by the encounter between interviewer and interviewee, but also by technical practices and the testimony process—and analyzes the ways in which interview questions, the framing of the camera, and curatorial and programming preferences impact how Holocaust testimony is molded, distributed, and received.
Children of the Holocaust
Title | Children of the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Epstein |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 1988-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0140112847 |
"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America; • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal; • Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion. Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.
Survivors of the Holocaust
Title | Survivors of the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Kath Shackleton |
Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1492688940 |
"Perhaps there is no simple, easy way to educate children about the Holocaust. Yet [this] new extraordinary work in the form of a nonfiction graphic novel for children is a valiant attempt to do just that. These testimonials... serve as a reminder never to allow such a tragedy to happen again."—BookTrib Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe. This extraordinary graphic novel tells the true stories of six Jewish children who survived the Holocaust. From suffering the horrors of Auschwitz, to hiding from Nazi soldiers in war-torn Paris, to sheltering from the Blitz in England, each true story is a powerful testament to the survivors' courage. These remarkable testimonials serve as a reminder never to allow such a tragedy to happen again. Features a current photograph of each contributor and an update about their lives, along with a glossary and timeline to support reader understanding of this period in world history.
Ecologies of Witnessing
Title | Ecologies of Witnessing PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Pollin-Galay |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300226047 |
An innovative reassessment of Holocaust testimony, revealing the dramatic ways in which the languages and places of postwar life inform survivor memory This groundbreaking work rethinks conventional wisdom about Holocaust testimony, focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal narrative. Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration. Comparing the remembrances of Holocaust victims who remained in Lithuania with those who resettled in Israel and North America after World War II, Pollin-Galay reveals meaningful differences based on where survivors chose to live out their postwar lives and whether their language of testimony was Yiddish, English, or Hebrew. The differences between their testimonies relate to notions of love, justice, community--and how the Holocaust did violence to these aspects of the self. More than an original presentation of yet-unheard stories, this book challenges the assumption of a universal vocabulary for describing and healing human pain.
Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust
Title | Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Allan Zullo |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2016-11-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1338157361 |
Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different children's experiences during the Holocaust. These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe. In a time of great horror, these children each found a way to make it through the nightmare of war. Some made daring escapes into the unknown, others disguised their true identities, and many witnessed unimaginable horrors. But what they all shared was the unshakable belief in-- and hope for-- survival. Their legacy of courage in the face of hatred will move you, captivate you, and, ultimately, inspire you.