Matters of Testimony : Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 25837865
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Berghahn Books Inc.
- ISBN
- 9781782389989
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book provides the first concerted engagement with manuscripts written in Birkenau by the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, among the most important witness texts of Holocaust history, but never considered in any depth before. It examines the ways in which they were written and their material state, and shows how prevailing theories of trauma, testimony, Holocaust writing, and materiality need to be re-conceptualised in their light. The research required lengthy and painstaking work deciphering and reconstructing badly damaged manuscripts written in French, Yiddish and Greek, and engagement with the extensive Holocaust studies literature. Research and writing were both split 50/50 between co-authors.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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