Memory and Narrative Ethics : Holocaust Testimony, Fiction, and Film

As the last survivors of the Holocaust pass away, the challenge of maintaining and extending our knowledge of this critical historical event becomes increasingly urgent.Without the firsthand testimonies of survivors, our understanding of the Holocaust is at risk of becoming diluted or distorted.The narratives that shape our collective memory-whether through testimony, fiction, or film-are essential in preserving the true horror and lessons of the Holocaust.This fading firsthand knowledge could lead to a loss of the ethical and historical gravity of Nazi Germany's mass murder of around six million Jews. Memory and Narrative Ethics presents an original approach that combines narrative studies, memory studies, narrative ethics, narrative psychology, and Holocaust studies to analyze how different forms of narrative preserve Holocaust memory.Through the approach of narrative hermeneutics, and taking into account his own perspective as a European born after the Second World War, Jakob Lothe