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My parents were killed in Sobibor, but it feels as if I was there: Imagination in my Interviews

Author(s) -

Selma Leydesdorff

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

historein

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102

H-Index - 4

eISSN - 2241-2816

pISSN - 1108-3441

DOI - 10.12681/historein.14386

Subject(s) - commit , loneliness , privilege (computing) , wonder , psychology , stupidity , social psychology , plaintiff , psychoanalysis , developmental psychology , law , political science , database , computer science

During the Demjanjuk trial in Munich (2009–2011), I had the unexpected privilege to interview the Nebenkläger (co-plaintiffs) who testified in court about Sobibor. They related extremely sad stories about losing fathers, mothers, spouses and close family. In this article, I attempt to analyse their extreme loneliness and I wonder how to interpret their fragmented language of trauma. What kind of knowledge did they commit, and in what way are their stories different from the stories told by survivors?

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