The End of Holocaust – The End of Pain?
The End of Holocaust – The End of Pain?

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents some of the results of the oral history research on the image of the Jews from Maramureş in collective memory. 1 It is based on interviews taken between 2005 and 2012 with Holocaust survivors, their descendents, and Christian witnesses: the neighbours or acquaintances of the survivors. We analyzed the experiences of Jews from Maramureş, an area of northern Transylvania, in the period after their liberation, the details of the changed world into which they were expelled after their terrifying experiences, and the way these were perceived and interpreted by the survivors as well as by the observers. After the long months in the camp, with their main aim to develop strategies to avoid death, 2 the return home was not a sudden positive transformation and a well deserved physical and psychological recovery for many of the survivors, but a time of new psychological.This paper presents some of the results of the oral history research on the image of the Jews from Maramureş in collective memory. 1 It is based on interviews taken between 2005 and 2012 with Holocaust survivors, their descendents, and Christian witnesses: the neighbours or acquaintances of the survivors. We analyzed the experiences of Jews from Maramureş, an area of northern Transylvania, in the period after their liberation, the details of the changed world into which they were expelled after their terrifying experiences, and the way these were perceived and interpreted by the survivors as well as by the observers. After the long months in the camp, with their main aim to develop strategies to avoid death, 2 the return home was not a sudden positive transformation and a well deserved physical and psychological recovery for many of the survivors, but a time of new psychological traumas, whether gradual or occurring at different stages of their lives.

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