Facing Death - Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves

Facing Death - Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves

von: Sarah K. Pinnock

University of Washington Press, 2016

ISBN: 9780295999289 , 224 Seiten

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Facing Death - Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves


 

What do we learn about death from the Holocaust and how does it impact our responses to mortality today?Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves brings together the work of eleven Holocaust and genocide scholars who address these difficult questions, convinced of the urgency of further reflection on the Holocaust as the last survivors pass away. The volume is distinctive in its dialogical and introspective approach, where the contributors position themselves to confront their own impending death while listening to the voices of victims and learning from their life experiences. Broken into three parts, this collection engages with these voices in a way that is not only scholarly, but deeply personal.The first part of the book engages with Holocaust testimony by drawing on the writings of survivors and witnesses such as Elie Wiesel, Jean Amry, and Charlotte Delbo, including rare accounts from members of the Sonderkommando. Reflections of post-Holocaust generationsthe children and grandchildren of survivorsare housed in the second part, addressing questions of remembrance and memorialization. The concluding essays offer intimate self-reflection about how engagement with the Holocaust impacts the contributors lives, faiths, and ethics.In an age of continuing atrocities, this volume provides careful attention to the affective dimension of coping with death, in particular, how loss and grief are deferred or denied, narrated, and passed along.