Holocaust memoir
memoir by a Holocaust survivor or child of a Holocaust survivor
Authorship of Holocaust memoirs refers to the collective process of authorship, by hundreds of Holocaust survivors, who published memoirs in the decades following World War II.
Overview
In the 1950s, the publication of two highly prominent memoirs, namely Night by Elie Wiesel, and Diary of Anne Frank, opened up an area of writing which would see the publication of hundreds of new memoirs over the following decades.
See also
Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust
List of Holocaust survivors
Published works
Bibliography of the Holocaust
Bibliography of Nazi Germany#Holocaust, ideology, Jews, the SS, and racism
The Holocaust in the arts and popular culture § Literature
List of posthumous publications of Holocaust victims
Holocaust survivors § Memoirs and testimonies
References
Further reading
Franklin, Ruth (2010). A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-971830-6.
Patterson, David (1998). Sun Turned to Darkness: Memory and Recovery in the Holocaust Memoir. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-0530-0.
Suleiman, Susan Rubin (2000).
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