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On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History
On Listening to Holocaust Survivors Recounting and Life History Author:Henry Greenspan Based on twenty years of the author's interviews and re-interviews with a group of Holocaust survivors -- the first longitudinal study of Holocaust retelling -- this landmark book describes how survivors recount their memories of the destruction. "It is not a story," insists one survivor of his memories. "It has to be made a s... more »tory. In order to convey it." Guided by the author, readers directly follow the ways survivors can and -- just as important-the ways they cannot "make stories" for the nightmarish "not-story" they remember.« less