Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory

Annotation This Important And Original Book Is The First Sustained Analysis Of The Unique Ways In Which Oral Testimony Of Survivors Contributes To Our Understanding Of The Holocaust. Langer Argues That It Is Necessary To Deromanticize The Survival Experience And That To Burden It With Accolades About The Indomitable Human Spirit Is To Slight Its Painful Complexity And Ambivalence.