Abstract
Abstract This chapter focuses on Hannah Pollin-Galay's Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony (2018), a watershed book exploring the connection between place and historical imagination in Holocaust testimony. In this book, she contextualizes the differences between the personal narratives of Lithuanian Jews who remained in Lithuania and those who immigrated to Israel or the United States. Pollin-Galay does not merely compare the situational variances of the different places; in addition, she addresses the nuances in the language in which survivors gave their testimony — English, Hebrew, or Yiddish. She also probes numerous topics raised by the interviewees, including relationships, community, justice, and how the survivor self was transformed as a result of dehumanization, persecution, and multiple losses. Analysis of these variables is illustrated with poignant and, at times, heart-wrenching narratives drawn from the interviews.
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