longitudinal analysis of survivor testimony reveals memory resilience and change over time
compares early and later accounts of 15 Holocaust survivors for comparative study
examines how context influences survivors' interpretation of their past
documents continuity and shifts in survivor narrative construction
based on authentic interviews with Holocaust survivors
Summarized by Shop
The book examines the development of individual survivor testimony in order to identify if the changing context influences survivors' accounts of their past. Early accounts were taken in the immediate post-war years and latter interviews were conducted over 50 years later. Analysis of these texts has demonstrated the remarkable resilience
