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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1990 5(4):447-462; doi:10.1093/hgs/5.4.447
© 1990 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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HOLOCAUST TESTIMONY

NANETTE C. AUERHAHN * and DORI LAUB

cleveland Ohio
New Haven Connecticut

Our focus is on Holocaust testimony as a structure of address spoken for and to several audiences: a (m)other, a humanized executioner, a mirroring community, the dead, and God. Testimony's purpose as reinventing a responsive other so as to re-constitute the self as one who is heard, is explored. In the process, negative vaiences underlying testimony are uncovered and found to reflect absence, discontinuity, and difference back on to the self, leaving the survivor alone once more.

* Shortly after this paper was written, my father, a Holocaust survivor, died. In thinking about him in the context of this paper, I realized the extent to which it and indeed my work in general are a means by which I attempt to bear witness for him. Thus I would like to dedicate this paper in loving memory to my father, Marcel Auerhahn, whose silent testimony over the years taught me the complexities of memory and the burdens of speech.


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