Holocaust memoir

Authorship of Holocaust memoirs refers to the collective process of authorship, by hundreds of Holocaust survivors, who published memoirs in the decades following World War II.

Overview

In the 1950s, the publication of two highly prominent memoirs, namely Night by Elie Wiesel, and Diary of Anne Frank, opened up an area of writing which would see the publication of hundreds of new memoirs over the following decades.

See also

• Holocaust survivors
• Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust
• List of Holocaust survivors

Published works

• Bibliography of the Holocaust
• Bibliography of Nazi Germany#Holocaust, ideology, Jews, the SS, and racism
• The Holocaust in the arts and popular culture § Literature
• List of posthumous publications of Holocaust victims
• Holocaust survivors § Memoirs and testimonies

Further reading

• Franklin, Ruth (2010). A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-971830-6.
• Patterson, David (1998). Sun Turned to Darkness: Memory and Recovery in the Holocaust Memoir. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-0530-0.
• Suleiman, Susan Rubin (2000). "Problems of Memory and Factuality in Recent Holocaust Memoirs: Wilkomirski/Wiesel". Poetics Today. 21 (3): 543–559. doi:10.1215/03335372-21-3-543.