The Boom of Testimonies after Communism: The Voices of the Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Romania (1989-2005)
The Boom of Testimonies after Communism: The Voices of the Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Romania (1989-2005)

Summary/Abstract: In this article I intend to deal with the relation between Jewish survivors and Holocaust remembrance in post-communist Romania. Therefore I will investigate the consequences of the Holocaust experience on Jewish survivors from the perspective of how, when and why they remember the catastrophe. My investigation will not particularly focus on the level of the trauma and sufferings they have to live with, but rather on how the political, social and cultural factors have managed to influence the public recollection of the war sufferings and the survivors’ attitude towards Holocaust remembrance. I am interested in discovering mainly the way these tragic experiences were perceived at the personal level by individual survivors and why, how and when they were recorded and became public. Thus, from the numerous (re)sources that contributed to the extremely wide field of Holocaust’s collective memory, I will focus on the nonfictional accounts of Jewish survivors

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