By Joanne Sayner
Who recollects, and the way? Debates concerning the position of reminiscence as heritage - and of literature as reminiscence - have more and more come to fascinate these attracted to how we glance at our pasts as a way for realizing the current. Women with out a Past? brings jointly for the 1st time autobiographies written by way of seven ladies who skilled Nazism from assorted views: Elfriede Brüning, Hilde Huppert, Greta Kuckhoff, Elisabeth Langgässer, Melita Maschmann, Inge Scholl, and Grete Weil. Their autobiographies galvanize assorted and difficult solutions to questions about who recalls what, while, the place, how and on behalf of whom. This booklet foregrounds the confident political strength of re-reading recognized texts and looking for explanation why others were marginalized. It examines autobiography as a kind of writing on the very centre of up to date debates at the 'self', 'truth' and 'history'. Women with out a Past? deals new insights into the politics of reminiscence and autobiography, and should be of specific curiosity to researchers and scholars attractive with women's writing and thoughts of Nazism.
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Hilde Huppert and her son survived mainly because her husband procured Palestinian visas and citizenship 34 WOMEN WITHOUT A PAST? for them; this made them “privileged victims” within the system of persecution. Bearing this in mind does not lead to invidious comparisons between victims, but rather helps to “enlarge our understanding of the impossible choices most Jews faced”, and is significant in the face of claims of representativeness (Kaplan 1995, 15). The arrest of Hilde Huppert and her family and their transportation to prison demonstrates one of the fundamental elements of persecution – the separation of male and female experience.
Unlike some testimonies which emphasize the discontinuity of their past life of persecution and present lives, Huppert’s text concludes with continuity through their new lives in Palestine, through the children who found new families and through the protagonist’s continued correspondence with the “Geretteten” [Saved] (107). The brevity of the chapter titles is paralleled by concise descriptions of events within the text, a style which emphasizes the abruptly progressive nature of the annihilation: Der Einzug der siegreichen deutschen Armee in jede polnische Stadt hatte für uns Juden das Ergebnis, daß eine Anzahl der angesehensten Juden mit hoch erhobenen Händen durch die Stadt marschierten, hinter die Stadt gebracht wurden, wo sie sich ihr Grab schaufeln mußten, dann entkleidet, erschossen und verscharrt wurden.
This had the effect of displacing to some extent survivors’ narratives of the Holocaust, although there were of course exceptions (Segev 1991, 11; Felman 1992, 228-29; Zimmerman 1994, 391; Bauer 2001, 242-60). It was in this context that not only Zweig, but also Shmuel Huppert, who attempted to get the text published in 1955 as a Hebrew translation entitled Vehashohet Sahat [The Slaughterer Slaughtered], were so unsuccessful. It is significant that Zweig’s status as an author in Palestine was not as influential as Huppert might have hoped.