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- Title
Trauma, Historiography and Polyphony: Adult Voices in the CJHC's Early Postwar Child Holocaust Testimonies.
- Abstract
This article examines the depiction of the loss of close family members in selected child Holocaust testimonies of the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland (CJHC) in relation to the representation of trauma and the practices of historiography that governed the collection and composition of these early postwar accounts, as well as contextualizing them within contemporary Jewish and Polish traditions of autobiographical writing. The CJHC's testimonial endeavor was informed by a range of potentially conflicting motivations: documenting Nazi atrocities for future historiographical, Jewish-voiced research into the Holocaust; collecting potential courtroom evidence for legal prosecutions; engaging with the young survivors on a more psychological level; and effectively creating testimonies affirming the individual survivor's identity as a member of two different Jewish communities: those who had perished and those who lived.
- Subjects
POLAND; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945; JEWISH history; HISTORY associations; NAZI history; HISTORIOGRAPHY; SURVIVORS of abuse; HOLOCAUST survivors; JEWISH refugees; HOLOCAUST victims; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
History & Memory, 2012, Vol 24, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
0935-560X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/histmemo.24.2.157