Abstract
This chapter charts and analyzes how family stories and eyewitness testimonies of Holocaust-related events, even concerning names and numbers, can clash with written sources that become accessible decades later. My case study is the story of my own family and how I tried to reconstruct my family’s past. In the broader sense, it is a case study of how contemporary historians cautiously navigate a never-ending labyrinth of emerging evidence, during their Sisyphean attempt to reconstruct what actually happened.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Holocaust History, Holocaust Memory |
| Subtitle of host publication | Jewish Poland and Polish Jews, During and After the Holocaust |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 181-191 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003859581 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032461434 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2024 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Lea Ganor; individual chapters, the contributors.