Reciting and Re-Siting Buried Testimonies: An Autoethnography of Learning in/From Sites of Destruction

• In Event: Critical Historical Inquiry: Personal, Pedagogical, and Methodological Explorations

Abstract

In this paper, I present an autoethnography of my attempts to bear witness to the Holocaust, focusing on my expectations for, experiences in, and implications of a seminar in Poland. I share implications for history teachers and teacher educators to recite testimonies that reflect a range of experiences in the Holocaust and ways to re-site testimonies from Polonized historical narratives.

Author

• Anna Yonas, University of Kansas