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In My Mind's Eye: Holocaust survivor narratives in many forms -- 25th Annual Exhibit Commemorating Yom HaShoah (April 16, 2015)

The 25th Annual Yom HaShoah exhibit commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day features selected examples in a variety of forms of survivor testimony from the collections of The James P. Adams Library.

Items displayed in Exhibit Cases

Additional Child Survivor Accounts

"Every student of the Holocaust knows the crucial importance of survivor’s testimonies in reconstructing the crime.  

They bring us as close as we are likely to get to the multifaceted essence of the experience,

whether that involved being abandoned or helped by one’s neighbors; concentrated in ghettos or sent directly to labor camps;

witnessing actual mass murder or the piecemeal brutality of “extermination through work”;

escaping the Nazis or enduring the worst that they could do. 

It may be, as some have said, that close attention to survivors’ accounts buys texture and historicity at the expense of coherence. 

If so, it is a risk we need to take if we are to grasp the complexity of the process and approach an understanding of what happened to the victims.From the Introduction to Fresh wounds: early narratives of Holocaust survival