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In recounting the past, Holocaust
survivors deliberately or unconsciously craft the stories they
recount about the Shoah. Whether through literature, memoirs, or
testimony, survivors shape stories about the past while signaling
what remains unsaid. Deferred memories—stories told many decades
after the events occurred—often address issues that survivors did
not dare or could not bear to recount earlier. Looking at these deferred
stories through the lens of gender, we will explore how survivors
craft accounts that insist on reclaiming, owning, and interpreting
what the writer Ida Fink called “the ruins of memory,” often against
the grain and in tension with academic interpretation.
Sara
R. Horowitz is a Professor of Comparative Literature and
Humanities at York University, Canada. She is the author of the
award-winning Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in
Holocaust Fiction (SUNY 1997) and most recently authored Shadows
in the City of Light: Paris in Post-War French Jewish Writing (SUNY
2021). She is the editor or co-editor of several prizewinning books
and served as chief editor for the Azrieli Holocaust Memoirs Series I
and II (Azrieli Foundation-Centre for Jewish Studies 2007,
2009).
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60 Minutes Segment
Re-Airs March 27
Don't miss Lesley Stahl's
Gracie Award-winning 60 Minutes segment “Talking to the Past,” re-airing on local CBS stations
on March 27. The segment focuses on Dimensions in Testimony and
features live as well as virtual interviews with Holocaust survivors,
including Pinchas Gutter, Eva Kor, Aaron Elster and Max Eisen. USC
Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony enables
people to ask questions that prompt real-time responses from
pre-recorded video interviews with Holocaust survivors and other
witnesses to genocide. Stahl’s own use of Dimension in Testimony in
the segment offers a national demonstration of the power that an
in-person conversation with witnesses to history can still have even
if the witness is not physically present.
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Did You Know?
If you have a loved one who
has testimony contained in our Visual History Archive, we can send you a link to download the
testimony at no cost.
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