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The Era of the Witness (Hardcover)
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What is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance?
Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling
and important historical sources we have, but this has not always
been true. In The Era of the Witness, a concise, rigorously argued,
and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, Annette
Wieviorka seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question. She
analyzes the conditions under which survivor testimonies have been
produced, how they have been received over time, and how the
testimonies shaped the construction of history and collective
memory. Wieviorka discerns three successive phases in the evolution
of the roles and images of the Holocaust witness. The first phase
is marked by the testimony left by those who did not survive the
Holocaust but managed nevertheless to record their experiences. The
second, most important, phase is centered on the Eichmann trial,
which for Wieviorka is the moment (1961 1962) when a broad cultural
deafness to survivors' stories was replaced by the image of the
witness as "bearer of history." The author follows the changing
nature of the witness into a third phase, which she calls "the era
of the witness." Especially concerned with the pedagogical and
political uses to which survivor testimony has been put, Wieviorka
examines factors that determine when and how survivor testimonies
are incorporated into the larger narrative of the Holocaust,
according it a privileged place in our understanding. By exploring
the ways in which the Holocaust is remembered, The Era of the
Witness also deepens our understanding of how testimony can help to
define not only twentieth-century history but also more recent
episodes of mass killing that are only now "becoming history."
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