Jewish Survivors. Three Publications on Survival

Abstract

Three US-American publications are being discussed, all of them dealing with the memories and narratives of Jewish survivors and their lives after their rescue. All three authors have interviewed survivors and take into account their individual experiences and the ultimate impossibility of describing those experiences. Every author approaches the subject from a different point of view: William Helmreich is a sociologist, Henry Greenspan a consulting psychologist and playwright who also teaches sociology, while Jared’s Stark’s field is American literature.