An event without an eyewitness: The Truth, a Testimony, and Salvation

• Authors: Laub D.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The authoress' essay emphasises the difficulties in acquiring a testimony of the Holocaust which, being a historic event, causes that it proves unfeasible to become one's own witness or witness to sufferings of the others. It also points out to the role of institutional framework of giving a testimony, in that it enables to express a testimony in the presence of a listener full of empathy. Theoretical reasoning is accompanied by an analysis of the case of a surviving child, for whom an expression of testimony enabled to recognise the shadow being cast by the past upon his life.

Keywords

EN

HOLOCAUST'S TESTIMONY; SURVIVING CHILD'S CASE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 5(107)
• Pages: 118-130
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Laub D.

• D. Laub, Yale University (New Haven), USA

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03607311