Constructing a collective memory of the Holocaust Book

	Preface: A Second-Generation Perspective
Ch. 1	Collective Memory and Jewish Holocaust Survival	1
	Jewish Particularity, Silence, and Emotional Reminders	3
	Scholarly Characterizations of Holocaust Survival	5
	Human Agency and Social Structure: A Framework for Analyzing Holocaust Survival	8
	Methodology: Constructing a Life History Study	11
Ch. 2	The Prewar Setting and Early War Years	16
	Family Beginnings and Prewar Influences	18
	The Beginning of the War	25
Ch. 3	Living Under German Occupation in a Small Town	40
	Escalating Repression	41
	The Final Days	45
Ch. 4	Surviving Outside the Camps	51
	Passing as a Pole	53
	Passing with the Polish Partisans	57
	Passing with the Soviet Army	59
Ch. 5	Surviving Inside the Camps	61
	Moderowka	61
	Szebnie	63
	Auschwitz: Birkenau	65
	Auschwitz: Buna-Monowitz	70
Ch. 6	The End of the War and Liberation	84
	Evacuation from Auschwitz: The Death March	84
	Liberation at Last	89
	An Uncertain Destiny	95
Ch. 7	Conclusion	101
	A Theoretical Summary	101
	Memories of Suffering, the Politics of Victimization, and Postmodern Sensibility	106
	Epilogue	114
	Notes	123
	References	135
	Index	145