Olga Lengyel, Auschwitz Survivor

Interdisciplinary Explorations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvPeter Davies,Hannah Holtschneider,Sheila E. Jelen,Christoph Thonfeld

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This book arises out of a long series of conversations about one of the most intriguing, but still under-researched, aspects of testimony: how the remembering and telling of an individual Holocaust survivor changes through time, through shifting contexts and with increasing age.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-14
Mått148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt321 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor141
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031824890

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Sheila E. Jelen is Professor of Religion, Literature and Visual Culture and the History of Judaism in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, USA.Peter Davies is Professor of Modern German Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Hannah Holtschneider is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Cultural History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Christoph Thonfeld is Head of the Research Department at Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Germany.

Introduction: Narrative Choice and Ethical Self Positioning in Olga Lengel’s Testimonies; Peter Davies.- 1. Was Olga Lengyel Jewish?; Gabriel Finder.- 2. Whose Story is This? Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys and Maternal Trauma in the Holocaust; Sheila Jelen.- 3. Self-preservation through Agency in Olga Lengyel’s Testimonies; Hannah Holtschneider.- 4. Representation of Perpetrators in Olga Lengyel’s 1946 Memoir and her 1998 Shoah Foundation Testimony; Christoph Thonfeld.- Conclusion: Future Direction in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Holocaust Testimonies; Peter Davies, Gabriel Finder, Hannah Holtschneider, Sheila Jelen and Christoph Thonfeld.