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Holocaust Testimonies

Reassessing Survivors' Voices and their Future in Challenging Times

Boaz Cohen editor Wolf Gruner editor Miriam Offer editor Thomas Pegelow Kaplan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publishing:12th Jun '25

£85.00

This title is due to be published on 12th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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An innovative interdisciplinary examination of the future of Holocaust testimonies.

Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony.

Drawing from a vast range of witness accounts – including a never-before-published survivor interview – and carefully situating analysis within broader historical and political discourses, this international team of scholars address many pertinent issues of testimony in the post-witness age. These include: questions of representation and testimony form; memory politics and the role of the witness; the legacy of the Holocaust and impact on future generations; the digital turn and issues of access; and gender and testimony in the wake of #MeToo. Stressing the importance of re-assessing, re-contextualizing, and re-presenting testimonies, these essays make a powerful case for the ongoing centrality of witnesses and witnessing in Holocaust research, education and memory. In doing so, Holocaust Testimonies skillfully paves the way for future research with survivor testimonies.

ISBN: 9781350237872

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

320 pages