Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing During the Holocaust

by Amos Goldberg

Book Overview

What are the effects of radical oppression on the human psyche? What happens to the inner self of the powerless and traumatized victim, especially during times of widespread horror? In this bold and deeply penetrating book, Amos Goldberg addresses diary writing by Jews under Nazi persecution. Throughout Europe, in towns, villages, ghettos, forests, hideouts, concentration and labor camps, and even in extermination camps, Jews of all ages and of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253029740
• ISBN13: 9780253029744
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher