• Media type: E-Book; Biography
  • Title: Approaching an Auschwitz survivor : Holocaust testimony and its transformations
  • Contributor: Matthäus, Jürgen [MitwirkendeR]; Matthäus, Jürgen [Other]
  • imprint: New York ;; Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2009
  • Published in: Oxford oral history series
  • Extent: 1 online resource (256 p.); ill
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389159.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780199866694
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: NQ 2360 : Judenverfolgung / Antisemitismus im Dritten Reich (Judenfrage)
  • Keywords: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz
    Konzentrationslager Auschwitz > Jüdin > Weibliche Internierte > Überlebender
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: Survivor testimonies are the least replaceable and most complex sources for Holocaust study & scholars often use testimonies uncritically or selectively, mining them to support generalizations. This book brings several scholars together to analyze the testimony of one Holocaust survivor, Helen 'Zippi' Spitzer Tichauer.