Reticent Testimony of Survivors: Contemplating Holocaust through Memoirs

Abstract

The Holocaust, the heinous crime of the 20 century, happened only seventy years ago, so it can be considered recent. The survivors feel crestfallen as they had to rejoin the same society, which was an accomplice either by commission or omission to the ‘insolent logic’ of ‘final solution’. Going through Holocaust writings, a sense of disbelief, incomprehensibility, obscurity and exclusivity is perceived. The memoirs give an incisive and interpretive account of the lives lost. There is no screaming, no anger, but an assertion for the dignity of those perished in this genocide.