Scholarly Articles
Twenty Years of Publishing Survivor Narratives: Scholars Reflect on the Educational and Cultural Impact of the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
In the twenty years that the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program (HSMP) has been publishing memoirs and diaries, there have been many changes in the academic and pedagogical landscape of Holocaust studies. Indeed, the HSMP has been at the forefront of these changes, producing not only written survivor accounts but also audiobooks, short films, and online exhibitions to educate on the complexities of survivor experiences in the Holocaust.
Muted Memories: Reconciling Memories of Sexual Violence and Abuse in Holocaust Survivor Narratives
This article examines the largely underexplored experiences of male Holocaust survivors who were victims of, or witnesses to, sexual violence.
Buried Words: Sexuality, Violence and Holocaust Testimonies
he impetus for this Special Issue was a 2018 conference organized by the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program, a Canadian publishing program whose growing collection of testimonies includes accounts of sexual abuse and violence experienced in different settings during the Holocaust.
From Fragment to Whole
In November 2014, the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program received an extremely unique document – a 250-page memoir written in Yiddish in 1944 by the former Chief Rabbi of Montreal, Pinchas Hirschprung. Seventy years after its initial writing, this extraordinary piece of literature would soon embark on a new journey...