2014/04/01 by Jovan Byford · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · Mathematics · #Balkans: History, Politics, Society #Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration #Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies #Witness #Dimension (graph theory) #Bearing (navigation) #Sociology #History #Aesthetics #Psychology #Political science #Art #Geography #Law #Cartography #Mathematics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/hgs/dcu011
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This article examines testimonies of Jasenovac survivors recorded in Serbia between 1989 and 1997 for the oral history collections of the Fortunoff Archive and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The author highlights the differences between the assumptions about survivors and testimony underpinning the US-based interview projects, on the one hand, and the understanding of bearing witness that is apparent in testimonies recorded for projects in Serbia on the other. Contrasting the emotion-centered American approach to survivor testimony with the atrocity-centered Serbian approach, the author argues for a more explicit acknowledgment among scholars, as well as among those involved in recording testimonies, of witnessing as a socially, historically, and institutionally embedded practice.