“INVENTORY OF SOME LOST MEMORIES”: ANALYSIS OF THE SHOAH’S TESTIMONY AND TRANSMISSION IN HISTORY TEACHING
Holocaust; Shoah; Memory; Testimony; History Teaching
The main objective of this thesis is to think about the impact os testimony in the Classroom, focusing on the testimony of Holocaust survivors, we argue that the appreciation of multiple voices as a teaching tool is capable of generating the expansion of the worl view and recognition o otherness, according to Lévinas, more than respecting the Other, it’s necessary to have responsibility for him, and puts empathy, in the sense said by LaCapra, back into historical research. Divided into four parts, the thesis is structured as follows: i. Critical discussion of the historiographical field, taking into account the impact that the theme of the Holocaust caused in the writing of History, especially from the shake-up, or expansion, of the notion of representation; ii. In the second moment, we seek to analyze the construction of the testimony category inserted in their contexts. Assuming that the testimony is a socially and politically constructed category, we discuss the key moments in which the survivor of a traumatic event found spaces to communicate the experience, thus highlighting the close relationship between memory and forgetting; iii. In part three, we will seek to find the "common indices" and their variations in the memories of the 2nd and 3rd generation, children and grandchildren of Shoah’s survivors who came to Brazil in the years following the Second World War, the documents set was defined from the Project “Millions of voices: testimony, Shoah and the history teaching of the present time”; iv. Finally, we aim to defend thet the Teaching of History through life stories, that is, the valorization of the voice in the work daily of the classroom, in its diversity of contents, fills "holes" in the teaching that historiography alone doesn’t answer and keeps the memory alive and in permanente construction. This thesis has as documents set, archives of the YadVashem – Israeli museum for the memory of the Holocaust, the collection of the Curitiba Holocaust Museum, sources of private archive of the