An Event Without A Witness: Truth, Testimony and Survival

M.D. Dori Laub

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Memory, Trauma, and Testimony Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies

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In my interpretation, what this young vagabond was doing with the photograph of his mother was, precisely, creating his first witness, and the creation of that witness was what enabled him to survive his years on the streets of Krakow. This story exemplifies the process whereby survival takes place through the creative act of establishing and maintaining an internal witness who substitutes for the lack of witnessing in real life.

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