Entrevistando sobreviventes do Holocausto: reflexões sobre a construção de um arquivo

• Autor(a) principal: Lerner, Kátia
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/reh/article/view/2243

This article analyses the cataloguing system applied to a collection of interviews of survivors of the Holocaust by the Shoah Foundation, a non-profit organization created in the U.S. in 1994. The aim is to show how this organization produced a "totalizing" memory system, trying to locate precisely every piece of information within more than one hundred thousand hours of testimonies. This classificatory system was related to some features of the collection, such as the emphasis on the "duty to remember" and the presence of technology, seen as the medium to preserve these memories in the future. The organization had problems in setting up a system that congregated such an amount of information, and this created a tension between the will to remember and the need to forget.