Introduction: Visual Testimonies of Memory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Visual Testimonies of Memory 1
4. 1 The Performance of Memory: Miriam Katin’s We Are on Our Own, a Child Survivor’s (Auto)Biographical Memoir 17
5. 2 Memory Frames: Mendel’s Daughter, a Second-Generation Perspective 52
6. 3 “Replacing Absence with Memory” Bernice Eisenstein’s Graphic Memoir I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors 85
7. 4 Flying Couch: A Third-Generation Tapestry of Memory 125
8. 5 Yossel: April 19, 1943: Possible Histories 151
9. 6 Visual Landscapes of Memory: Fracturing Time and Space 177
10. Epilogue: An Inheritance of Memory 194
11. Acknowledgments 199
12. Notes 201
13. Bibliography 225
14. Index 235
15. About the Author 241