Holocaust literature

E322006

body of literature literary genre

Holocaust literature is a body of writing—encompassing diaries, memoirs, fiction, and poetry—that bears witness to the experiences, atrocities, and moral questions arising from the persecution and genocide of Jews and other groups during the Holocaust.

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Label	Occurrences
Holocaust literature canonical	1

Statements (86)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	body of literature ⓘ literary genre ⓘ
addressesGroup	Jews ⓘ LGBTQ+ victims ⓘ Roma people ⓘ surface form: Roma and Sinti Soviet POWs ⓘ other persecuted minorities ⓘ people with disabilities ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ
aimsTo	bear witness to atrocities ⓘ confront moral questions of genocide ⓘ counter denial and distortion ⓘ educate future generations ⓘ preserve memory of victims ⓘ
developedSignificantlyIn	postwar period ⓘ
emergedDuring	1940s ⓘ
focusesOnEvent	Holocaust ⓘ
hasForm	autobiography ⓘ children's literature ⓘ diary ⓘ drama ⓘ essay ⓘ graphic narrative ⓘ memoir ⓘ novel ⓘ oral history ⓘ poetry ⓘ short story ⓘ testimony ⓘ
hasHistoricalContext	German-occupied Europe ⓘ Nazi Germany ⓘ World War II ⓘ
hasLanguage	English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Hungarian ⓘ Polish language ⓘ surface form: Polish Yiddish ⓘ
hasMainTheme	Holocaust ⓘ Nazi persecution ⓘ bystanders and complicity ⓘ concentration camps ⓘ extermination camps ⓘ forced labor ⓘ genocide of European Jews ⓘ ghettos ⓘ identity ⓘ loss ⓘ memory ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ resistance ⓘ survival ⓘ testimony ⓘ trauma ⓘ
hasNotableAuthor	Aharon Appelfeld ⓘ Anne Frank ⓘ Art Spiegelman ⓘ Charlotte Delbo ⓘ Elie Wiesel ⓘ Imre Kertész ⓘ Jorge Semprún ⓘ Nelly Sachs ⓘ Paul Celan ⓘ Primo Levi ⓘ Tadeusz Borowski ⓘ
includesWork	If This Is a Man ⓘ Maus ⓘ Night ⓘ Schindler's List (novel) ⓘ surface form: Schindler's Ark The Book Thief ⓘ The Diary of Anne Frank ⓘ surface form: The Diary of a Young Girl The Drowned and the Saved ⓘ The Painted Bird ⓘ
influences	memory culture ⓘ postwar ethical thought ⓘ trauma theory ⓘ
isStudiedIn	Holocaust studies ⓘ Jewish studies ⓘ comparative literature ⓘ memory studies ⓘ
isUsedIn	Holocaust education ⓘ commemorative practices ⓘ
raisesQuestion	ethics of representation ⓘ limits of language ⓘ representability of extreme trauma ⓘ

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Input

Subject: Holocaust literature
Description of subject: Holocaust literature is a body of writing—encompassing diaries, memoirs, fiction, and poetry—that bears witness to the experiences, atrocities, and moral questions arising from the persecution and genocide of Jews and other groups during the Holocaust.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Anne Frank → movement → Holocaust literature ⓘ