Chapter 12. Why We Chose Australia

Cohen, Sharon Kangisser

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“…as historian Sharon Kangisser-Cohen showed, most late testimonies tend to conceal subjects and scenes that may depict Holocaust survivors, as individuals or as a group, in a bad light. 52 as Kangisser-Cohen argued convincingly, such behavior might be related to the survivors' focus on the commemorative function of the testimony. In particular, over time, survivors develop greater sympathy and understanding of the problematic behavior of former fellow prisoners and are more aware of the fact that the audience may fail to fully grasp the situation of Jews during the Holocaust.…”

Section: Experiencing the "Inhuman" Self: The Holocaust In Transnistriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Five Lives of a Holocaust Survivor: On Shifting Identities, the Search for Belonging, and Building Meaning

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2022

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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This article belongs to the special cluster, “Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust”, guest-edited by Natalia Aleksiun and Hana Kubátová. This article examines the life story of Felicia Carmelly, a Holocaust survivor from southern Bukovina, and follows her geographic and demographic journey from Dorna to the deadly camps of Transnistria, to postwar Romania and Israel, and finally to contemporary Canada. By close reading of her two oral interviews and her later memoirs, it reconstructs a particular biography shaped by the violent uprooting of Felicia and her family from the places she called home and discusses multiple shifts in her identity and a changing sense of belonging. Her life offers us a window into the broader questions about Jewish survivors and migrants after World War II, the inherent contradictions surrounding the evolution of modern Jewish identities, and the (non)negotiable boundaries of individuals in various circumstances.

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Section: Experiencing the "Inhuman" Self: The Holocaust In Transnistriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Five Lives of a Holocaust Survivor: On Shifting Identities, the Search for Belonging, and Building Meaning

Dumitru¹

2022

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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Chapter 12. Why We Chose Australia

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Five Lives of a Holocaust Survivor: On Shifting Identities, the Search for Belonging, and Building Meaning

Five Lives of a Holocaust Survivor: On Shifting Identities, the Search for Belonging, and Building Meaning

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