From the Lone Survivor to the Networked Self. Social Networks Meet the Digital Holocaust Archive by Paris Papamichos Chronakis

“…However, taking the social relation rather than the individual and his/her testimony as the organizing principle of a rethought digital Holocaust archive leads to a more historically faithful understanding of the Holocaust survivor as a networked self. A pilot digital reconstruction of social networks of Jewish Holocaust survivors from the Greek city of Salonica/Thessaloniki demonstrates how the linear digital audiovisual archive can support the digital documentation of the multiple forms and structures of relatedness, thus helping historians better understand how Holocaust survivors managed to reconstruct a social universe in the camps and navigate within it under extremely adverse circumstances.…”
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Remembering Dr Mark/Meir Dvorjetski: Physician, Survivor, Teacher, Historian, and Pioneer of Shoah Medicine Research by Deborah E.-S. Hemstreet, George M. Weisz

“…Meir Dvorjetski was a Holocaust survivor, teacher, and historian. He is best remembered for his descriptions of the medicine practiced by the Nazis during World War II, as well as the diseases, disorders, syndromes, and deaths resulting from such practice—particularly, though not solely, on the Jewish race. …”
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Teaching Holocaust Memory Literature in Higher Education: An Autoethnographic View by Ilana Elkad-Lehman

“…The autoethnographic writing process was significant for my comprehension of the issue of Holocaust memory due to the fact that I am a second-generation Holocaust survivor. While the experience described is important in understanding the processes that are probably undergone by teachers who are second- and third-generation Holocaust survivors, the manner in which the Holocaust ethos is perceived in Israel precludes discussing them.…”
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A Journey Through Hell: Dante’s influence on Art Spiegelman’s Maus by Brian Ireland, Penelope James

“…In this paper we suggest that comic book artist Art Spiegelman utilised the imagery and lexicon of theInferno to create Maus, a two volume biography of his father Vladek Spiegelman, a former inmate of Auschwitz and Holocaust survivor. Art Spiegelman utilises structural and the- matic elements of Inferno to help explain the tortured relationship he had with his parents, especially the effects on him of his mother’s suicide, as well as the difficulties of recording history, particularly an event as immense and traumatic as the Holocaust.…”
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Nuancing Gestures: Perpetrators and Victims in Reinhard Kleist's The Boxer by Laurike in 't Veld

“…<p class="p1"> Reinhard Kleist’s graphic novel <span class="s2"><em>The Boxer </em></span>tells the story of Holocaust survivor Harry Haft and his participation in forced boxing matches in Nazi concentration camps. …”
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A Portrait of the Rabbi as a Young Man: Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung’s Memoir of His Escape from Europe to Canada by Ira Robinson

“…It is one of the earliest examples of Holocaust survivor memoirs, written and published while the systematic destruction of European Jewry was ongoing. …”
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The Poets of Myanmar by Paul Cummins

“…His publications include an autobiography, Confessions of a Headmaster, three other books on education, two children’s books, four collections of essays, a biography of a holocaust survivor, Dachau Song, and three volumes of poetry. …”
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The Meaning of Life and Death in the Eyes of Frankl: Archetypal and Terror Management Perspectives by Claude-Hélène Mayer, Nataliya Krasovska, Paul J. P. Fouché

“…Frankl was purposively sampled due to his international acclaim as an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, who later became famous as a holocaust survivor and the founder of logotherapy. Through his approach of “healing through meaning,” he became the founder of the meaning-centred school of psychotherapy and published many books on existential and humanistic psychology. …”
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“Ich habe ihn mehr geliebt als mein Leben”. Literarische Bekenntnisse Ingeborg Bachmanns zu Paul Celan in ihrer utopischen Geschichte Die Geheimnisse der Prinzessin von Kagran by Mihaela AANEI

“…For that manner, in Malina and especially in the inserted story The Secrets of the Princess of Kagran, there are noticeable clues which remind of Celan’s personal history and of his personality: the details regarding the magic appearance of „the stranger” who is supposed to belong to an ancient and misterious lineage, veiled in a long, black cloak, as well as his placement in different harsh circumstances specific to the nazi torture locations give the reader a solid insight about the true destiny of the poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan.…”
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“Out of Germany”: Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Jakub’s World (2005), and the Commemoration of the Holocaust in the United States by Klara Stephanie Szlezák

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“Only Those Who Look Back, Move Forward”: Four Literary Responses to Genocidal Trauma in Greek and Transnational Prose by Tessa Hofmann

“…When genocide survivors write about their experiences, literature serves as a ‘means of survival’ (‘Überlebensmittel’), as the German Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Edgar Hilsenrath accurately named this particular type of prose. …”
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The Book of Job by Cooper, L, Cooper, Linda Laurance

“…</p> <p>This thesis then focuses on the writings of Gustavo Gutierrez, a Peruvian Catholic priest, who uses the Book of Job to empower the people's revolt against dictatorships; Elie Wiesel, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, who identifies himself with Job and believes that Job must still be arguing with God; Archibald MacLeish, an American poet, professor, and statesman, who creates a modern Job who eventually realizes that humans have only the love of other humans as a <em>raison d'être</em> for life; Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, who believed that the Book of Job reflects an honest appraisal of the unconscious/God energy - a dualism which Christianity has suppressed much to its detriment.…”

An evidence perspective on topical relevance types and its implications for exploratory and task-based retrieval by Xiaoli Huang, Dagobert Soergel

“…In the process of creating a speech retrieval test collection, graduate history students made 27,000 topical relevance assessments between Holocaust survivor interview segments and real user topics, using the four relevance types, each on a scale of 0 to 4. …”
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The Burden of Deciding for Others by Krishna Chokshi

“…Also, some studies do not allow the enrollment of incapacitated patients without surrogates, which further limits the patients’ access to emergency treatment options that are readily available to patients with surrogates.[16] I was recently involved in the care of an elderly COVID-19 patient who I learned was a Holocaust survivor. Like the estimated 3 percent of older adults in nursing homes, this patient was incapacitated and had no surrogate or appointed guardian.[17] He presented to the emergency room with respiratory failure and was immediately intubated. …”
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Postpamięć krytyczna w narracjach potomków ocalonych z Szoa (J. Dres, M. Grynberg, G. Rossenberg) by Robert Więckowski

“…Critical Post‑memory in Narratives of the Offsprings of Holocaust Survivors (J. Dres, M. Grynberg, G. Rossenberg) The literary works of the offsprings of Holocaust survivors most frequently show that this is the inherited Shoah trauma, which was, and still is, very important or even the most important determinant of their lives. …”
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Archivierte Zeugenschaft by Verena Lucia Nägel

“…In what has been called “The Era of the Witness” (Wieviorka 1998) an international movement emerged that has collected and recorded an incalculable number of interviews with Holocaust survivors worldwide. The quantity and varying quality, documentation and availability of the testimonies is a challenge for their use as an academic source. …”
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“Born into a Broken World:” The Holocaust Carrier by Susan Jacobowitz

“… In this article, a second-generation author explores the conflicts and challenges of post-war Jewish identity and the inheritance from her father, through the medium of literature by and about sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors. …”
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Spatial movement as a resistance strategy in a holocaust novel A Blessing on the Moon by Sri Sumaryani

“…As it goes along, the issue of trauma and identity of the Holocaust survivors and their descendants is also explained.…”
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The subject of ashes by Kitty S. Millet

“…Adler and Anna Orenstein, also Holocaust survivors, that holds both positions together in one space, the space of literature, preventing the two positions from being stranded in dialectical opposition to each other.…”

Gathering the Voices: Disseminating the Message of the Holocaust for the Digital Generation by Applying an Interdisciplinary Approach by Angela Shapiro, Brian McDonald, Aidan Johnston

“…The aim of the Gathering the Voices project is to gather testimonies from Holocaust survivors who have made their home in Scotland and to make these testimonies available on the World Wide Web. …”
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