Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust: Displaced Witnesses (review)

"Why is the Holocaust still being written?" writes Phyllis Lassner in the introduction to her book about Anglo-Jewish writers, poets, and artists who have dealt with the Holocaust in their creations. This serious question positions the book within the genre of research delving into the questions not only of "what" but of "why" various things have been written about the Holocaust in the past generation. Lassner has focused on a number of types of Holocaust related writings and their authors. One is the compositions of Holocaust refugees who reached Great Britain such as Karen Gershon and Lore Segal, and through them, the literature relating to the Kindertransports. However at the same time she also devoted chapters to writers of the second generation (children of Holocaust survivors) such as Anne Karpf and Lisa Appignanesi, and finally, to a number of British writers without a direct connection to the Holocaust who chose to write about the cataclysm such as Elaine Feinstein, Julia Pascal, and Sue Frumin