https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/They-Did-Witness https://booksandideas.net/They-Did-Witness 2019-03-28T06:30:00Z text/html en Nick Underwood History Shoah world war testimony yiddish Books and ideas originals postwar <p>When did Holocaust survivors start speaking about their experiences? Were their voices heard? A prevailing myth states that witnesses remained silent during the postwar years. However, Judith Lindenberg's edited volume argues that the “urgency to say and make known was present from the beginning of the genocide”.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-language-of-the-executioners https://booksandideas.net/The-language-of-the-executioners 2010-11-29T07:50:00Z text/html en Ivan Jablonka History Germany Shoah judaism genocide language testimony yiddish translation <span class="caps">FMSH</span> Text Interviews <p>As Friedländer notes in <i>The Years of Extermination</i>, Hitler lost the war against the Allied forces but not the one he unleashed against the Jews. Within a few years, Nazism had succeeded in destroying a civilisation, a heritage, a language. The executioners spoke German but they also invented a whole propaganda lexicon, complete with coded language and circumlocutions designed to conceal the extermination scheme. Conversely, in the face of imminent destruction, the victims accumulated testimonies. Are there such things as languages of life and languages of death? Dialogue between a historian and his translator.</p>