Archiv der Erinnerung: Interviews mit Überlebenden der Shoah (The Archive of Memory: Interviews with Shoah Survivors): Videographierte Lebenserzählungen und ihre Interpretationen (An Analysis of Audiovisual Life Stories)

This interdisciplinary volume presented a pioneering study on the emerging body of Holocaust videotestimony in 1990s Germany. The volume addresses both academic researchers across disciplines as well as lay audiences interested in keeping Holocaust memory alive. It takes as its starting point the 78 videotestimonies, the first to be collected in Germany, taken during the mid-1990s under my co-direction as part of a collaborative project with Yale University's Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimony. The multidisciplinary volume treats the complex facets of persecution, survival and post-survival in Germany from historical, psychological, biographical and artistic aspects. Individual articles explores topics such as the impact of the German East-West divide on narrations of persecution, narrative patterns among child survivors, the stories of those persecuted as 'mixed-race Jews' ('Mischlinge'), and the Jewish Second Generation in Germany.