Sheila E. Jelen is Zantker Professor of Jewish literature, culture and history at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and the director of the Jewish studies program.

• Introduction: The Cracow Ghetto Resistance and Its TestimoniesChapter 1: “Sovereign Consciousness”: Photography and Audiovisual TestimoniesChapter 2: “We Knew We Could Never Triumph”: Hela Schüpper-Rufeisen (1921–2017)Chapter 3: “The Accident Which Pursues the Witness”: Rivka Kuper (1920–2007)“The Accident Which Pursues the Witness”: Rivka Kuper (1920–2007)Chapter 4: “I Ran Around between the Legs of All the Elders”: Yehudah Maimon (1924–2020)Chapter 5: “So That My Death Will Be Sweet”: Shifra Lustgarten (1923–99)Postscript: “A Delicate Knowledge”

Sheila Jelen skillfully and sensitively creates a compelling intertextuality between testimonies given by the same group of people at different times, for different purposes, and in different formats. She develops a fascinating close reading of this ‘family of testimonies’ as literary palimpsests that invite her readers to engage deeply with the people, the historical and continuing trauma, the events, and the past and present contexts of witnessing.