Survivor Testimonies and the Problem of Time

Testimonies of Holocaust survivors have had an essential influence on public engagement with the Shoah in recent decades. Given this importance, imminent end “era witness” has sparked fears that history could soon be forgotten. The past decades therefore seen unprecedented efforts to record testimonies order safeguard immediacy their accounts. In essay, I trace how different temporal entanglements affected narrated memory and thus also shaped knowledge those born later. Focusing four interviews conducted a Jewish survivor 1946, 1995, 1998, 2004 respectively, explore biological time, historical recording temporality narrative memories. As argue, allowed for starkly reconfigurations reconstructions past. This renders study epistemic constitutive nature entangled temporalities important not only studies, but knowledge, field which recently turned processes forgetting ignorance.