Among sources on the Holocaust, survivor testimonies are the least
replaceable and most complex, reflecting both the personality of
the narrator and the conditions and perceptions prevailing at the
time of narration. Scholarship aims to challenge memory and fill
its gaps. At the same time, scholars often use testimonies
uncritically or selectively-mining them to support generalizations.
This book is a departure, bringing several scholars together to
analyze the testimony of one Holocaust survivor. Helen "Zippi"
Spitzer Tichauer was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. One of the few
early arrivals to survive the camp and the death marches, she met
her future husband in a DP camp. They moved to New York in the
1960s. Since the end of the war, Zippi devoted many hours to
talking with a small group of scholars about her life. Zippi's
testimony covers a wide range of human experiences in extremis and
spans fifty-odd years. It is thus uniquely suited to raise
questions on the meaning and use of survivor testimony. What do we
know, sixty years after the Nazi era, about the workings of a death
camp? How willing are we to learn from the experiences of a
survivor, and how much is our perception preconditioned by
standardized images? What are the mechanisms, aims and pitfalls of
story-telling? Can survivor testimonies be understood properly
without guidance from those who experienced the events? This book,
written by established Holocaust scholars who have known Helen
Tichauer for years, attempts to approximate survivor testimony and
probe the limits of its representation and understanding.
Contributors include Atina Grossmann (author, Jews, Germans, and
Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany, Princeton, 2007),
Konrad Kwiet (co-ed., Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust,
2005), Wendy Lower (author, Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony,
Memory, Indiana UP, 2007), Nehama Tec (author, Resilience and
Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust, Yale, 2003, and Defiance:
The Bielski Partisans, OUP, 1993). The book will be of interest to
both Holocaust scholars and oral historians.
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