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Sephardic and Oriental Oral Testimonies: Their Importance for Holocaust Commemoration and Memory

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In the absence of documentation, oral testimonies of Sephardic and Oriental Holocaust survivors serve as important sources for remembering and learning about the Holocaust in the Balkans, North Africa, and Iraq during World War II. Furthermore, the published testimonies are an additional way of including Sephardic and Oriental Jewry in the Holocaust historiography, which has largely ignored the non-Ashkenazic Jews who suffered in the Holocaust in the death camps, in hiding, or during their escape from their home countries. Since Holocaust museum exhibitions have often failed to represent Sephardic Jewry as Holocaust victims, Sephardi oral testimonies are educational tools and vehicles for raising public awareness about the theme.

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2031-2034

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978-0-333-80486-5

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Link to article (paywalled), Sephardic and Oriental Oral Testimonies: Their Importance for Holocaust Commemoration and Memory

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Kerem, Yitzchak Sephardic and Oriental Oral Testimonies: Their Importance for Holocaust Commemoration and Memory. Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide. Palgrave Macmillan. 2001: 2031-2034.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1007/978-1-349-66019-3_142