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Chapter 6 - Personal Narratives Connected to the Holocaust

from Part II - Personal Narratives in the Contexts of the Holocaust, Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, and Internal Israeli Divisions

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Julia Chaitin  and
Elad Avlagon
Julia Chaitin
Affiliation:
Sapir College
Elad Avlagon
Affiliation:
Sapir College
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Summary

In Chapter 6, we present examples from the four different kinds of personal narratives that we conceptualized that connect to genocide and war, with this chapter focusing on the Holocaust. Our four types of personal narratives are termed: distancing, victimhood, ambivalence/paradoxes, and embracing the other while remaining in one’s pain. In this chapter, we present and analyze long quotes from narratives of Jews and (non-Jewish) Germans who are descendants of Holocaust survivors and Nazi perpetrators. Our examples come from a variety of sources – interviews that we undertook over the years with members of the first, second, and third generations, internet sources, YouTube, research books that present narrative interviews, and memoirs and autobiographies that exemplify the different kinds of narratives. This chapter, then, presents concrete examples of the different kinds of personal stories that we find in the context of speaking and/or writing about the Holocaust, mainly among the second and third generations, the children and grandchildren of the war generation.

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Ambivalent/Paradoxical narrativesArabsDistancing narrativesEmbracing the other while remaining in one’s painGermansHolocaustJewsIsraelisNazisVictimhood narratives
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Striving for Peace through Personal Narratives of Genocide and War , pp. 89 - 106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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