Holocaust memoir

Authorship of Holocaust memoirs refers to the collective process of authorship, by hundreds of Holocaust survivors, who published memoirs in the decades following World War II.^[1]

Overview

In the 1950s, the publication of two highly prominent memoirs, namely Night by Elie Wiesel, and Diary of Anne Frank, opened up an area of writing which would see the publication of hundreds of new memoirs over the following decades.^[1]

References

1 2 10 Holocaust Memoirs You Should Read: These first-person accounts of Jewish survival and resilience during the Holocaust are powerful, educational and moving. BY MY JEWISH LEARNING

Franklin, Ruth (2010). A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-971830-6.
Patterson, David (1998). Sun Turned to Darkness: Memory and Recovery in the Holocaust Memoir. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-0530-0.
Suleiman, Susan Rubin (2000). "Problems of Memory and Factuality in Recent Holocaust Memoirs: Wilkomirski/Wiesel". Poetics Today. 21 (3): 543–559. doi:10.1215/03335372-21-3-543.

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