“Fighting Trauma”: Silencing the Past in Alan Scott Haft’s Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano

Freiburg R (2017)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2017

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Edited Volumes: Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature

Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict

City/Town: Basingstoke

Book Volume: 7

Pages Range: 80-105

ISBN: 978-3-319-55277-4

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55278-1

Abstract

The paper studies the complex problems of survival under difficult conditions. It shows how quickly the borderine between a victim and a perpetrator can be blurred. Harry Haft is interpreted as a representative of those survivors who were doomed to feel guilty after their survival of the Holocaust.

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APA:

Freiburg, R. (2017). “Fighting Trauma”: Silencing the Past in Alan Scott Haft’s Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano. In Susana Onega, Constanza del Rio, Maite Escudero (Eds.), Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature. (pp. 80-105). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

MLA:

Freiburg, Rudolf. "“Fighting Trauma”: Silencing the Past in Alan Scott Haft’s Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano." Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature. Ed. Susana Onega, Constanza del Rio, Maite Escudero, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 80-105.

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