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This 4 page paper examines this piece of work and talks about the Holocaust and memory. Specific terminology and how Holocaust survivors embrace these terms are issues discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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by and large, a human face is put on this tragedy. By focusing on certain individuals, the author is able to exemplify the problem with memory and how memory recall
can be both fulfilling and cause anguish at the same time. Also noted is how memory is sometimes difficult to recall and not necessarily accurate. One of the individuals included
in Delbos works is a woman by the name of Mado. As Mado tries to remember what happened, she puts things together through various forms of memory retrieval as well
as asking others for help. Deep memory goes more to the feeling one can recall. Theorists who write about past life memory for example suggests that memory is really more
of a feeling and that sensory perception sometimes sparks memory recall. The common memory is more of what is remembered such as the dragging of someone by the pants for
example, as relayed in the Delbo book, or things that someone thinks they have seen. Mado uses both types of memory, but as others who have survived ordeals and lost
some memory is also attached to the notion that one needs artifacts or the memory of others to authenticate their own. It is impossible sometimes for Mado to remember everything
and she does not even remember her own name. Of course, Mado has few people to ask anything of, or rely upon, because she is a survivor. Everyone else is
dead and she even claims that at least figuratively, she is too. While each individual portrayed in the work uses memory in one way or another, Delbos use of memory
is clearly relevant. Mesher (1996) writes: "Delbos memory carries an emotional truth, if not a literal one: that the simple experience of washing herself, for the first time since arriving
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