1st Edition

Memory and the Holocaust Descendants of Survivors and Family History

Edited By Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, David Clark Copyright 2025
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

The importance of recording testimony of Holocaust survivors is well understood. While empowering the survivor and adding another layer of documentation about the cataclysm, it also serves as a bulwark against Holocaust denial. The same holds true for helping survivors pen their memoirs, or when writing their history. At the same time, this process also impacts upon the person recording the... Read more

Introduction

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and David Clark

The Second Generation

Chapter 1

Buffalo Bill from Bochnia in Auschwitz: A Performative Memoir in Four Acts 

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

Chapter 2

Scraps and Souls

Anita H. Grosz

Chapter 3

Witness By Proxy

Jacqueline Heller

Chapter 4

Mir Zennen Do: The Memory Motto of a Living Family

Ruchel Jarach-Sztern

Chapter 5

Passing the Baton: My Parents, Our Family Holocaust History, and Me

Naomi Levy

Chapter 6

My Mother's Memoirs: A Joint Effort

Marian Liebemann

Chapter 7

Homemade Testimony: Researching and Processing My Greek Parents' Holocaust Testimonies

Shmuel Refael

Chapter 8

Letters, Life and Legacies – Writing the Story of My Mother, Karen Gershon

Naomi Anne Shmuel

Chapter 9

Grateful Every Day

Ruth Finkel Wade

Chapter 10

First, Second, Third Generation

Dov Eichenwald

The Third Generation

Chapter 11

Conversations With My Dead Grandfather

M. W. Bukiet 

Chapter 12

Remember and Not Forget? The Study of Jewish Law and Theater and the Holocaust

Yaniv Shimon Goldberg

Chapter 13

Inherited Courage: A Third Generation Perspective on my Partisan Grandparents

Daniela Ozacky Stern

Chapter 14

Connecting the Dots: Talking to My Grandparents About the Holocaust

Gadi Winter

Chapter 15

Epilogue

David Clark

 

Biography

Judith Tydor Baumel- Schwartz is the Director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar- Ilan University, Israel. She has written and edited numerous books and articles about the Holocaust and its aftermath.

David Clark completed his PhD on Jewish museums (London Metropolitan University). He co- edited, together with Maria Kousis and Tom Selwyn, Contested Mediterranean Spaces (2011). He also co- edited with Sommaruga Howard The Journey Home, Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past (2021).