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Groth, Alexander J. and John R. Owens, Marilyn A. Groth. HOLOCAUST VOICES: AN ATTITUDINAL SURVEY OF SURVIVORS.
Humanity Books 2003 1591021553 / 9781591021551 Hardcover Fine
278 pp. The Holocaust has been discussed and debated countless times by political scientists, historians, philosophers, and society at large, but the voices of Holocaust survivors have until now been heard only as accounts of the sufferings of individual victims and their loved ones. With this study, however, Alexander Groth has endeavored to establish a more collective, objective depiction of the perspective of Holocaust survivors through the use of an attitudinal survey designed to shed light on, among other issues, the meaning and life-changing implications of the so-called Final Solution of the Jewish Question for Holocaust survivors.The survey was distributed in 1996-97 to over seven hundred survivors. Attention was paid to geographic diversity: the countries of origin of the respondents, who numbered 251 in all, reflect the general demographic distribution of Jews living throughout Europe on the eve of the Second World War. Thus, for example, the number of Poles responding to the survey largely outweighed those of other nationalities. Additionally, the respondent pool reflected a substantial diversity in terms of age, socioeconomic background, level of education, and degree of religious belief, as well as a roughly equal representation of men and women. The respondent group also included a subgroup of survivors who managed to escape Nazi control at some point during the war (the so-called part-term survivors).The survey, reproduced in the appendices, consists of some eighty questions, whose topics cover the survivors' lives before, during, and after the Holocaust. Particular attention is paid to determining how survivor attitudes--toward religion, the war, and the future of the world, among other matters of considerable importance--changed (or did not change) over the course of time. Groth has divided these attitudinal questions into five groups: cognition of the events of the Holocaust, learning from the Holocaust, Jewish identity, blame for the Holocaust, and comparison with other genocidal events in world history. With the aid of charts, tables, and further statistical analysis, he is able to paint a more accurate general picture of the effect of this terrible tragedy on its survivors than has been previously attempted.
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