Memory and the Holocaust Descendants of Survivors and Family History

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The importance of recording testimony of Holocaust survivors is well understood. While empowering the survivor and adding another layer of documentation about the cataclysm it also serves as a bulwark against Holocaust denial. The same holds true for helping survivors pen their memoirs or when writing their history. At the same time this process also impacts upon the person recording the testimony assisting the survivor in writing his or her memoirs and certainly upon those who write about the survivors. What happens when the interviewer biographer translator or memoir transcriber is a child or grandchild of that survivor? This book is based on the premise that a collection of personal narr…