Open Forum in the Dedicated Issue of East European Holocaust Studies on Oral History and the Holocaust

Abstract

Oral history constitutes one of the pivotal source categories through which we investigate the Holocaust. The more diverse the source base, the more accurately we can reconstruct the events that transpired. Initially, the study of Holocaust history heavily relied on German documents – essentially, viewing the events through the lens of sources produced by the perpetrators. These sources presented the perspective of the Holocaust’s orchestrators and executors.

Keywords

• holocaust testimonies
• survival strategies
• holocaust perpetrators