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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1990 5(1):13-21; doi:10.1093/hgs/5.1.13
© 1990 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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THE AFFIRMATION OF LIFE IN SHE'ERITH HAPLEITA*

ZE'EV MANKOWITZ

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel

One of the distinguishing marks of the survivors who converged on occupied Germany in the aftermath of the Holocaust was their remarkable struggle to retain their humanity. The collective name they gave themselves, She'enth Hapleita, could be translated as the Saved Remnant. They preferred to see themselves as the Saving Remnant. Our analysis of their relationship to the terrors of the past and their active contribution to the shaping of the Jewish future tends to confirm this view Against this background we describe the affirmation of life of those so long immersed in death.

*Presented at the ‘Remembering for the Future’ Conference, Oxford, 10–13 July 1988.


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