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Memory perceived : recalling the Holocaust
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Memory perceived : recalling the Holocaust

Author: Robert Nathaniel Kraft
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
Series: Psychological dimensions to war and peace
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Using examples from 200 hours of testimony by Holocaust survivors, this volume documents how memory responds to atrocity: how people comprehend and remember deeply traumatic experiences, and ultimately adapt. This book depicts how the Holocaust exists in the minds of those who went through it, simultaneously revealing the principles of enduring memory while making the Holocaust more specific and immediate to readers.  Read more...
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Nathaniel Kraft
ISBN: 0275977749 9780275977740
OCLC Number: 49583773
Description: xxii, 211 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Foreword / by Harvey Langholtz -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Revealing memories : oral testimony and the Holocaust -- 2. Defining memories: patterns of remembering -- 3. Childhood's end : memory in young children who survived the Holocaust -- 4. Apprehending atrocity : levels of awareness during prolonged trauma -- 5. Aftershocks of traumatic memory : disturbing behavior and beliefs -- 6. Beyond the aftermath : lessons of memory -- Appendix -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Series Title: Psychological dimensions to war and peace
Responsibility: Robert N. Kraft.

Abstract:

Using examples from 200 hours of testimony by Holocaust survivors, this volume documents how memory responds to atrocity: how people comprehend and remember deeply traumatic experiences, and ultimately adapt. This book depicts how the Holocaust exists in the minds of those who went through it, simultaneously revealing the principles of enduring memory while making the Holocaust more specific and immediate to readers. Through synthesis of many different testimonies, one individual is presented in relation to others, showing personal tragedies as well as the collective atrocity. The findings are also applied in the volume to other groups of people who have lived through extended atrocity.

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