Holocaust Memoir Digest: A Digest of Published Survivor Memoirs with Study Guide and Maps., vols. 1–3, compiled and edited by Esther Goldberg, introduction and maps by Sir Martin Gilbert (Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004–2006), vol. 1 xviii + 126 pp., 19.50; vol. 2 xix + 140 pp. 19.50; vol. 3 xix + 120 pp. 19.50, all pbk
In her ongoing multi-volume Holocaust Memoir Digest Esther Goldberg is producing a work indispensable to any understanding of the increasingly complicated field of Holocaust studies. The growing phenomenon of Holocaust denial demonstrates the urgency of preserving and transmitting the testimony cont...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 329-331 |
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| Summary: | In her ongoing multi-volume Holocaust Memoir Digest Esther Goldberg is producing a work indispensable to any understanding of the increasingly complicated field of Holocaust studies. The growing phenomenon of Holocaust denial demonstrates the urgency of preserving and transmitting the testimony contained in survivors' memoirs. Nor is Holocaust denial the only threat: a growing number of scholars regard survivors' testimonies as all but irrelevant to understanding the Holocaust. I have heard historians say that we should not look to the survivors for a sense of what the Holocaust was about precisely because they were there, trapped in the midst of the whirlwind. Survivors' accounts are “tainted,” it is argued, by their personal perspectives. Goldberg's Digest refutes this position. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm033 |