In Search of the Lost Tydors: An Exercise in Holocaust Documentation

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

doi:10.4324/9781003380245-22

In Search of the Lost Tydors: An Exercise in Holocaust Documentation

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This chapter charts and analyzes how family stories and eyewitness testimonies of Holocaust-related events, even concerning names and numbers, can clash with written sources that become accessible decades later. My case study is the story of my own family and how I tried to reconstruct my family’s past. In the broader sense, it is a case study of how contemporary historians cautiously navigate a never-ending labyrinth of emerging evidence, during their Sisyphean attempt to reconstruct what actually happened.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Holocaust History, Holocaust Memory
Subtitle of host publication	Jewish Poland and Polish Jews, During and After the Holocaust
Pages	181-191
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003859581
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003380245-22
State	Published - 1 Jan 2024
Externally published	Yes

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