Author: Sara R. Horowitz, Department of Humanities, York University - ResearchGate, Wikipedia

Abstract: »SARA HOROWITZ expands on the general theme described by ARIEL in her analysis of ‘Unsettled accounts’. Confirming ARIEL’S observation about the decades of non-sharing personal experience of sexualized violence, HOROWITZ states that in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, deferred narratives by child survivors and Holocaust scholarship have brought the issue of sexuality and children into the public forum. Her chapter examines the unsettled accounts of men and women who narrate episodes of remembered sexualized violence as children during the Shoah—unsettled in the ethical, psychological, and narrative senses. Looking at three sets of memory narratives, the contribution explores the memories of child survivors, their enduring and evolving after-effects, the narrative construction of shame and agency, and the interpretive demands placed on these accounts by others.« (Source: Helga Amesberger, Helga Embacher, Johannes-Dieter Steinert. »Introduction: Ideological Intersection of Sexualized Violence during Nazi Persecution.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 14)

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