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The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as
children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for
researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood
experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their
own historical awareness and memories of their postwar lives,
requiring readers to follow simultaneous, disparate narratives.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians,
psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors'
accounts. With a central focus on the Kestenberg Holocaust Child
Survivor Archive's over 1,500 testimonies, it not only enlarges our
understanding of the Holocaust empirically but illuminates the
methodological, theoretical, and institutional dimensions of this
unique form of historical record.
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as
children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for
researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood
experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their
own historical awareness and memories of their postwar lives,
requiring readers to follow simultaneous, disparate narratives.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians,
psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors'
accounts. With a central focus on the Kestenberg Holocaust Child
Survivor Archive's over 1,500 testimonies, it not only enlarges our
understanding of the Holocaust empirically but illuminates the
methodological, theoretical, and institutional dimensions of this
unique form of historical record.
This work shows how interviews help child survivors of the Jewish
experience during World War II. It is unique in that it features
different aspects of the interviewer-interviewee relationship. The
contributions are personal as well as analytical in nature, and the
narrative is an informed psychological analysis. The work should be
of interest to Holocaust centers, researchers, oral historians,
psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, and
trauma researchers as well as survivors.
In this brilliantly researched and insightful book, psychologist Eva Fogelman presents compelling stories of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust--and offers a revealing analysis of their motivations. Based on her extensive experience as a therapist treating Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and those who helped them, Fogelman delves into the psychology of altruism, illuminating why these rescuers chose to act while others simply stood by. While analyzing motivations, Conscience And Courage tells the stories of such little-known individuals as Stefnaia Podgorska Burzminska, a Polish teenager who hid thirteen Jews in her home; Alexander Roslan, a dealer in the black market who kept uprooting his family to shelter three Jewish children in his care, as well as more heralded individuals such as Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, and Miep Gies. Speaking to the same audience that flocked to Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning movie, Schindler's List, Conscience And Courage is the first book to go beyond the stories to answer the question: Why did they help?
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