Holocaust Memories: A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels and Films

By Claudia Moscovici.

Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust. As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. Many fear that this important event may fall into oblivion yet there have been hundreds of memoirs, histories and novels written about it. Holocaust Memories includes reviews of the many memoirs, histories, biographies, novels and films about the Holocaust. The book focuses primarily on Jewish victims, but also reviews cultural artifacts about the sufferings of the Gypsies, the Poles and other groups that fell victim to the Nazi regimes. The last part of the survey discusses other genocides and crimes against humanity, including the Stalinist mass purges, the Cambodian massacres by the Pol Pot regime and the Rwandan genocide as Moscovici wants to emphasize that history can, indeed, repeat itself, even if in different forms and contexts. Just as the Jews of Europe were not the only targets of genocide, Fascist regimes were not its only perpetrators.

Claudia Moscovici is a Romanian-American author, who writes about the Romantic movement, and psychology as well as historical fiction. Her most recent book, Dangerous Liaisons (Relazioni Pericolose), was launched in Italian translation at the Italian Parliament, Camera dei Deputati.

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