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If you could lick my heart, it would poison you : oral testimony and Holocaust memorialization in the U.S. / by Rebecca Dillmeier.

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Summary: This study will look at how the current use of oral testimony in traditional and non-traditional education reflects the problems with the way the Holocaust has been memorialized in the United States, and how it can be used to create a more historically accurate public memory of the Holocaust. Over 52,000 taped testimonies of Holocaust survivors, bystanders and perpetrators sit in archives around the country and very little work has been done on how these testimonies are being used or what they can tell us about the Holocaust. Drawing on recent oral history theory and Holocaust studies and incorporating first person interviews with both Holocaust survivors and teachers, this thesis will demonstrate what a valuable resource these testimonies are for the future of Holocaust memory in the U.S. All interviews were conducted in confidentiality, and the names of the interviewees are withheld by mutual agreement.
Series: University of Florida Digital Collections.
Format: Online resource
Author/Creator: Dillmeier, Rebecca.
Published: [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2012
Locale: United States
Notes: In the series University of Florida Digital Collections.

Includes vita.

M.A. University of Florida 2012

Includes bibliographical references.

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Electronic reproduction. Gainesville, Fla. : University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries, 2008. (University of Florida Digital Collections) Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Language: English
External Link: Digitized version from the University of Florida Digital Collections
Physical Description: 1 online resource (72 pages)

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Conditions on Access: Applicable rights reserved.

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Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography. Memorialization--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Study and teaching. Academic theses. Personal narratives.

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