Essay On The Holocaust Interview

There is no doubt that conducting interviews with survivors of the Holocaust is not an easy task. That is to say, asking someone to talk about what is probably the most horrible experience is his / her life can be very painful for the interviewee and the interviewer as well. Additionally, the interviewer must expect to hear tragic stories and never argue with the interviewee under any circumstance. The example below presents how a good interview should be conducted. In fact, the reason why I have chosen specifically this interview among many is because of both the interviewer and the interviewee has her motives to tell the story in a comprehensive way. For the interviewer is the focus of attention, and therefore, more engaged, especially …show more content…
For example, when she talks about the fate of her older sister; she mentions four versions: the first one is that she hid in the Warsaw ghetto, the second is that she was given to the women, who submitted her to the Nazis, by who she was killed, while the third or she was taken to the hospital and died there. And the last one, that she was adopted by another family. The actual fact is that is still not known whether she is still alive or not. At any rate, she was four years old; her memories become clearer after she turned four: she was able to remember the details more clearly. As can be noted from the interview, her journey through the Holocaust was an extremely painful and difficult one. Describing her life as a little girl, she tells the human destruction that she was exposed to and witnessed; reliving the deaths of her family, and the experience of the other children who were with her, not to mention the story of her own survival. It is one of the most difficult situations that indeed affected my feeling; listing to her testimony really drives me to feel the atrocities and the terror perpetrated by the