Abstract
Histories of horror and war have informed and shaped trauma studies. The Holocaust has become the signifier for the ultimate human evil in Western culture: the ungraspable nature of the event and its impact on Western collective memory have instigated researchers and triggered experts’ interest. The magnitude of evil and the excesses of pain that struck European Jews during World War II imbued with it a deep sense of horror, guilt, and shame across Europe. Many post-war Westerners and intellectuals perceived the Holocaust and the atrocities of war as a stark indication of their moral and ethical failure, and dramatically saw themselves as accomplices, perpetrators, and collaborators, even by their silence. Trauma studies are deeply rooted in the historical legacy of war and its bearings on Holocaust victims. This field evolved around Holocaust survivors and the Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. In their Testimony (1992), Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub Leila Aouadi
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