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Abstract
This essay uses several autobiographical texts by former members of the Kindertransporte to discuss the tension between institutional history and personal life stories in relation to a number of issues present in these texts. Authenticity, group identity, the cultural construct of the ‘child’ concept and the fragmented self are examined within the framework of Holocaust memoir writing and cultural and autobiographical theory. The essay argues for a multidimensional analysis of such autobiographical texts to reach a wider audience within and outside Holocaust studies.
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Andrea Hammel
Andrea Hammel is AHRC Research Fellow and Project Coordinator at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. On the Kindertransport subject she has co-edited Kindertransporte 1938/39: Rescue and Integration, special issue of Shofar (2004) and her monograph on Everyday Life as Alternative Space in Exile Writing is forthcoming in 2005.