Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of
two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland.
One brother, the author s father, endured several concentration
camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a
horrific winter death march; while the other brother, the author s
uncle, survived outside the camps by passing as a Catholic among
anti-Semitic Poles, including a group of anti-Nazi Polish
Partisans, eventually becoming an officer in the Soviet army.
As an exemplary "theorized life history," Surviving the
Holocaust applies concepts from life course theory to interpret the
trajectories of the brothers lives, enhancing this approach with
insights from agency-structure and collective memory theory.
Challenging the conventional wisdom that survival was simply a
matter of luck, it highlights the prewar experiences, agentive
decision-making and risk-taking, and collective networks that
helped the brothers elude the death grip of the Nazi regime.
Surviving the Holocaust also shows how one family s memory of the
Holocaust is commingled with the memories of larger collectivities,
including nations-states and their institutions, and how the
memories of individual survivors are infused with collective
symbolic meaning.
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