Language:
French
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Tsafon; revue d'études juives du Nord
Angaben zur Quelle:
84 (2022) 105-114
Keywords:
Berr, Hélène, Diaries
;
Hillesum, Etty, Diaries
;
Ringelblum, Emanuel, Diaries
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Jews Diaries
Abstract:
The Nazi enterprise sought to eradicate all Jews; it also wanted to suppress the memory of their existence; it even hoped to abolish the memory of their extermination. However, some of the victims understood this mechanism perfectly well and chose to testify to what was happening behind closed doors. These diarists of the Holocaust recorded facts to resist the dispossession of their history orchestrated by the perpetrators. Despite their death, some of their texts have survived and become surviving works. To understand the challenges of such writing, we will look at the diaries of Hélène Berr in France, Etty Hillesum in the Netherlands and Emmanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw ghetto.
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