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Add to the list of Holocaust survivor testimonies this important book that includes narrative accounts of 23 Jewish survivors, 1 Sinti (Gypsy), and 1 rescuer. Lindeman, director of Living Testimonies, a center for Holocaust research and documentation in Montreal, has written an excellent introduction that posits the motivation behind the needs of Shoah survivors to tell their stories. The book's chapters are arranged according to three distinctions: gender, age, and whether one survived inside or outside the camps, in hiding, or on the run. Lindeman explains that the decision to separate the chapters of women's accounts of the camps from that of the men was an effort to capture their particular experiences during the Holocaust. He is sensitive to recent Holocaust historiography that distinguishes between the gender-based behaviors of those who were victims of the Nazis. Lindeman writes that "although Nazi destruction clearly did not distinguish between men and women, there are differences" in terms of what was done to them (vulnerabilities) and what they did (their resources). The volume includes a country-by-country chronology discussed by the survivors, as well as a glossary. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.Choice
[T]hese narratives make an important contribution to Holocaust studies by providing a framework for stories that survivors often find incredibly difficlut to share.Shofar
Shards of Memory is a collection of personal testimonies of various means of survival by which individuals preserved themselves in the face of the great Nazi assult on their bodies, psyches, and lives during World War II. The Living Testimonies Project at the Holocaust Video Documentation Archive of McGill University gathers and records the experiences and eyewitness accounts of Holocaust survivors through individually videotaped interviews with survivors. The current volume is a retelling of 25 of these stories. The editors convey the narratives in the survivors' own words and provide candid descritions of the subjects' tone and manner of speaking.MultiCultural Review
Since 1989, Yehudi Lindeman has been interviewing Holocaust survivors for the Living Testimonies Archive in Montreal. In this volume, he shares the stories of 25 individuals. Included are those who managed to pass as Gentiles, others who survived the death camps, and others who went into hiding or escaped. The final narrative offers the perspective of a Danish man who helped smuggle some 7,000 Jews to safety. Elie Wiesel contributes the foreword.Reference & Research Book News
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"Yehudi Lindeman's Shards of Memory frames and informs the emerging debate on the value of survivor-testimony in the post-survivor age. The 24 "ghostwritten" narratives collected in Shards of Memory will confront the reader with the urgent and important question how and where the countless shards of individuality embodied in taped survivor-testimony will survive within the generalized and simplified narratives of future generations." - Robert Jan van Pelt, Co-author of Auschwitz (1996), Holocaust: A History (2002), Author of The Case for Auschwitz (2002).
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Add to the list of Holocaust survivor testimonies this important book that includes narrative accounts of 23 Jewish survivors, 1 Sinti (Gypsy), and 1 rescuer. Lindeman, director of Living Testimonies, a center for Holocaust research and documentation in Montreal, has written an excellent introduction that posits the motivation behind the needs of Shoah survivors to tell their stories. The book's chapters are arranged according to three distinctions: gender, age, and whether one survived inside or outside the camps, in hiding, or on the run. Lindeman explains that the decision to separate the chapters of women's accounts of the camps from that of the men was an effort to capture their particular experiences during the Holocaust. He is sensitive to recent Holocaust historiography that distinguishes between the gender-based behaviors of those who were victims of the Nazis. Lindeman writes that "although Nazi destruction clearly did not distinguish between men and women, there are differences" in terms of what was done to them (vulnerabilities) and what they did (their resources). The volume includes a country-by-country chronology discussed by the survivors, as well as a glossary. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.
[T]hese narratives make an important contribution to Holocaust studies by providing a framework for stories that survivors often find incredibly difficlut to share.
Shards of Memory is a collection of personal testimonies of various means of survival by which individuals preserved themselves in the face of the great Nazi assult on their bodies, psyches, and lives during World War II. The Living Testimonies Project at the Holocaust Video Documentation Archive of McGill University gathers and records the experiences and eyewitness accounts of Holocaust survivors through individually videotaped interviews with survivors. The current volume is a retelling of 25 of these stories. The editors convey the narratives in the survivors' own words and provide candid descritions of the subjects' tone and manner of speaking.
Since 1989, Yehudi Lindeman has been interviewing Holocaust survivors for the Living Testimonies Archive in Montreal. In this volume, he shares the stories of 25 individuals. Included are those who managed to pass as Gentiles, others who survived the death camps, and others who went into hiding or escaped. The final narrative offers the perspective of a Danish man who helped smuggle some 7,000 Jews to safety. Elie Wiesel contributes the foreword.
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"Yehudi Lindeman's Shards of Memory frames and informs the emerging debate on the value of survivor-testimony in the post-survivor age. The 24 "ghostwritten" narratives collected in Shards of Memory will confront the reader with the urgent and important question how and where the countless shards of individuality embodied in taped survivor-testimony will survive within the generalized and simplified narratives of future generations." - Robert Jan van Pelt, Co-author of Auschwitz (1996), Holocaust: A History (2002), Author of The Case for Auschwitz (2002).
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