Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
"In this article I intend to deal with the relation between Jewish survivors and Holocaust remembrance in post-communist Romania. Therefore I will investigate the consequences of the Holocaust experience on Jewish survivors from the perspective of how, when and why they remember the catastrophe. My investigation will not particularly focus on the level of the trauma and sufferings they have to live with, but rather on how the political, social and cultural factors have managed to influence the public recollection of the war sufferings and the survivors’ attitude towards Holocaust remembrance. I am interested in discovering mainly the way these tragic experiences were perceived at the personal level by individual survivors and why, how and when they were recorded and became public. Thus, from the numerous (re)sources that contributed to the extremely wide field of Holocaust’s collective memory, I will focus on the nonfictional accounts of Jewish survivors."
Recommended Citation
Ionescu, Ştefan. “The Boom of Testimony after Communism: The Voices of the Holocaust Survivors in Romania: 1989-2005,” Studia Hebraica No. 5 (2005): 357-380. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=231782
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
The Goldstein Goren Center for Hebrew Studies
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Comments
This article was originally published in Studia Hebraica, volume 5, in 2005.