A Survivor Named Trauma : Holocaust Memory in Lithuania

Sklarew, Myra

State University of New York Press（2020/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 228 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438477206
• DDC分類 940.5318094793

Full Description

Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.

A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania. How do we behave under threat? How do we remember extreme danger? How do subsequent generations deal with their histories-whether as descendants of perpetrators or victims, of those who rescued others or were witnesses to genocide? Or those who were separated from their families in early childhood and do not know their origins? Myra Sklarew's study draws on interviews with survivors, witnesses, rescuers, and collaborators, as well as descendants and family members, gathered over a twenty-five-year period in Lithuania. Returning to the land of her ancestors, Sklarew found a country still deeply affected by the Nazi Holocaust and decades of Soviet domination. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to readers interested in neuroscience and neuropsychology, Holocaust studies, Jewish history, and personal memoir.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I. Beginnings

Beginnings

1. In the Ponar Forest

2. Versions

3. Out of Sight

4. Leiser's Song

5. Lietūkis Garage Massacre

Part II.

6. Return: Witness, Survivor, Next Generation

7. Trauma Made Manifest: Its Persistent Forms

8. Rescue

9. Who Are Our Teachers?

10. And So I Lived On

Notes
Bibliography
Index