Language:
French
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Cahier International sur le Témoignage Audiovisuel
Angaben zur Quelle:
9 (2003) 85-96
Keywords:
Nazi concentration camps
;
Holocaust survivors
Abstract:
Relating to the debate which has arisen in recent years about the conflict between history and memory in relation to Holocaust historiography, discusses how eyewitness accounts may be used by the historian. Notes the defects of relying solely on official archival materials, and shows that survivor testimonies may provide answers to specific questions, such as conditions during deportation, the arrival at Auschwitz, and the organization of slave labor. Legitimate methods for study of the non-factual (i.e. the significance of human experience) can be developed. However, it requires a double transformation of historical understanding, since both the "object" of historical study and historiography itself have changed as a result of the Shoah.
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