Biografii întrerupte. Voci ale supraviețuitoarelor Holocaustului în România
Interrupted biographies. Voices of Women surviving the Holocaust in Romania

Summary/Abstract: Until two decades ago, when the Final Report of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania was published, the memorial recovery of the process by which the Jewish communities in the Romanian space were destroyed during World War II was extremely problematic because it was subject to attempts to distort, deny and minimize it. After Romania recognized, at least at the official level, the direct participation in the Holocaust, studies on this topic developed especially in the area of historical and socio-political research. In the literary area, except for a few initiatives coming from academia, this approach has been largely ignored. The analysis of the Holocaust literature in Romania from the perspective of gender studies, more specifically, from the perspective of women’s studies has raised even less interest. Through the lens of Holocaust studies and gender studies, this paper analyzes, fragments of biography contained in the memoirs and diaries of authors who survived deportations either in Nazi camps or in Transnistria (Gisella Perl, Olga Lengyel, Ana Novac, Ágnes Rózsa, Sonia Palty, Edith Kertzman). The analysis of these texts, which are almost dismissed by researchers, aims not only to make the voices of the surviving authors heard but also to contribute, through their accounts, in which they insist on the policies and persecutions in the camps targeting Jewish women, to the contextualized and nuanced recovery of the memory of the Holocaust in Romania.

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