Compassionate Storytelling with Holocaust Survivors: Cultivating Dialogue at the End of an Era

摘要: We live in a frantic, fractured, ever-quickening, and violent world that is at the end of era which we will be able to talk with survivors Shoah. To date, there have been approximately 100,000 recorded interviews Holocaust survivors. The vast majority these interviews—such as 52,000 done for Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation Archive—have used traditional, single-session, “neutral” methods oral history interviewing “capture” “preserve” legalistic, historical “testimonies” present study responds this situation unique moment time by slowing down, listening, speaking repeatedly intimately, forming interpersonal relationships, storytelling three Tampa Bay area: Salomon Wainberg, Manuel Goldberg, Sonia Wasserberger. I do order see those work experiential authorities help me address classic post-modern issues human meaning, connection, value postHolocaust world. first contextualize within extant related research field communication. Then situate project broader intersections on This followed an outline particular collaborative ethnographic theories influence work. These contexts lead chapters, stories each survivor worked past years. Each story focuses on: a) significance sharing particularities survivor’s vi experience through our dialogues together; b) insights explorations central themes (compassion, identification, affinity) emerged from relationships. final chapter concludes reflecting synthesizing values limitations project. As whole, dissertation cultivates exemplifies: understanding humane humanistic approaches fields communication history; compassion, affinity important lenses motives consider individuals (in individual mass atrocities); c) need continue developing diverse scholarship centralize personal stories, dialogue, peace, wisdom, represents marginalized experiences marginalization violent, oppressive offered token remembrance who shared their me.