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Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival
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Overview
These interviews encompass survivors from Poland, Lithuania, Germany, France, Slovakia, and Hungary, ranging in age from their early teens to their seventies. Their remarkable stories shed light on such controversial subjects as relations between Jews and neighbors or strangers who extended or withheld aid, opportunities for and obstacles to Jewish resistance, the victims' knowledgeor lack of knowledgeabout the fate that awaited them in Nazi hands, survival strategies, women's experience of the Holocaust, the Nazi practice of placing prisoners in charge of their fellow inmates, and the liberators' postwar treatment of freed concentration camp inmates.
In an introduction, Donald Niewyk describes this extraordinary interviewing project and traces the overwhelming obstacles Boder faced in finding an audience for the survivor narratives he collected.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780807872406 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 09/06/2011 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 432 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d) |
Lexile: | 890L (what's this?) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Editorial Methods
Introduction
Part I. Poland
1. Abraham K.
2. Udel S.
3. Fela N.
4. Bernard W.
5. Sigmund R.
6. Kalman E.
7. Nechama E.
8. Jurek K.
9. Hadassah M.
10. Benjamin P.
11. Rachel G.
12. Lena K.
13. Lena K.'s Children
Nathan S.
Edith Z.
Raisel M.
14. Israel U.
15. Julian W.
16. Mendel H.
17. Pinkus R.
18. Anna K.
19. Roma T.
20. Rabbi Solomon H.
21. Isaac W.
Part II. Lithuania
22. Ephraim G.
Part III. Germany
23. Jürgen B.
24. Hildegard F.
25. Friedrich S.
26. David M.
27. Jacob M.
Part IV. France
28. Edith S.
29. Nelly B.
30. Fania F.
Part V. Slovakia
31. Baruch F.
32. Helena T.
Part VI. Hungary
33. George K.
34. Adolph H.
Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Ghettos and Camps
Selected Bibliography
Index
What People are Saying About This
There is an extraordinary power to these narratives, which are at times shattering. Unlike the many memoirs that have been written since the war, these accounts have a penetrating power, most likely because of their oral recounting and the freshness of the experiences described.Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Provides an important link in the chain of Holocaust documentation. . . . Raises provocative questions about the way in which we process memories and changes in perspective as we achieve distance from trauma.Hadassah Magazine
As the title suggests, these narratives are 'fresh' and the acute trauma, pain and anger of the survivors, palpable. It is a book that starkly presents the horrors of war at a micro and individual level and paints a horrific picture of the human capacity for evil. . . . This volume is a rich resource for multi-disciplinary research into the dynamics of conflict.Ethnic Conflict Research Digest
Provides stark and immediate testimony of the daily life of Jews under the Holocaust, uninfluenced by what Primo Levi recognized as the 'ever more blurred and stylized memories' of survivors who sought to recall the terrible events years or decades later.AB Bookman's Weekly
Fresh Wounds reveals the victims' devastating experiences of pain, loss, and humiliation with compelling authenticity.Booklist
Powerful and compelling. Niewyk provides background information and context for these narratives and thus enables the reader to have a coherent narrative of persecution and survival during the Holocaust.Sybil Milton, former Senior Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
In this truly remarkable work, Donald Niewyk brings to light, fifty years after they were first recorded, the immediate, intense recollections of Holocaust survivors set down in 1945 and 1946 in interviews with the American psychologist David P. Boderthe original, forgotten scholar dedicated to codifying survivor memory for the benefit of history. These Boder interviews are the earliest known attempt by a qualified academic to record systematically the experiences of Jewish survivors. The story of how they were discovered and became a manuscript is a saga as compelling as the information they contain, which confirms with the authenticity of immediacy so much of what we have learned in the half-century since they were recorded. This is an original and substantial addition to the historical literature of the Holocaust.Charles W. Sydnor Jr., author of Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945