Diverse Personnel in Libraries
Diversity
Identity
Interviewees
Interviewing
Life History
Memory
Mentoring
Oral Historians: Tasks and Roles
Oral History
Oral History: Definitions
Shared Authority
Spectrum Initiative
Storytelling
Trauma
Validity
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- “Survivors live with countervailing pressures: the struggle
to forget and remain silent, and the need to tell and to memorialize.” i
- “Survivors often go to great lengths to silence themselves
and to ensure that their memories remain sealed.” ii
- “Survivors are probably more likely to tell their story not
because they understand it as a form of psychotherapy for their own suffering
(an alien concept), but because they see that in telling they are participating
in a collective process of truth telling.” iii
- “The survivor struggles with a compelling need to rebuild the
link to his self and to another (to recapture in memory and in thought,
at least, what has been lost) and with an equally compelling sense that
restitution is impossible.” iv
i Nutkiewicz, Michael, “Shame, Guilt, and Anguish in Holocaust
Survivor Testimony,” The Oral History Review 30 (1) (Winter/Spring
2003), 3.
ii Nutkiewicz, 15.
iii Weine, Stevan, “Universes of Testimony: Considerations for Bosnia-Herzegovina,”
In R. Mollica and R. Lavelle (eds.), Trauma Training Textbook (Soros Publishers,
2002), 11.
iv N. Auerhahn and Dori Laub, ‘Holocaust Testimony,” Holocaust
and Genocide Studies Vol. 5 (1990): 448.
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