Author: Violeta Davoliūtė, Tarptautinių santykių ir politikos mokslų institutas (Institute of International Relations and Political Science), Vilniaus universitetas (Vilnius University) - Personal Website, Academia.edu, ORCID

Contents:

	Sara/Hannha Rigler’s Testimony (p. 358)
	Primo Levi’s Reawakening (La Tregua) (p. 363)
	Conclusion (p. 366)
	Notes (p. 368)
	Bilbiography (p. 370)

Extract: »This chapter seeks to illustrate the memory void hypothesis by comparing how the memoirs of two Holocaust survivors represent the encounter with violence, sexual exploitation, and rape during the immediate aftermath of liberation.
The first is by the Lithuanian Jewish survivor Sara/Hannah Rigler (née Matuson, b. 1928) who turned sixteen as an inmate of the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig. Upon liberation, she sought to return to her hometown of Šiauliai (Shavel in Yiddish), in Lithuania, though her voyage eastward ended prematurely in the Polish city of Białystok. The second is by a famous writer and Holocaust witness, Primo Levi (1919–1987), who turned twenty-six after he was liberated from Auschwitz, and whose voyage home to Turin in Italy would take a peripatetic, eight-month detour eastward through Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine, before turning south toward Romania and then back to the west.« (Source: Article, p. 357)

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