...Sue Vice Abstract This article examines the contemporary phenomenon of fiction and film about Holocaust survivors suffering from dementia. Earlier examples of this kind use dementia to explore the interior states of survivor guilt and the suppression of painful memories. By contrast, twenty-first...

... of Eurocentric models of trauma to a decolonized theory of trauma. Finally, Sue Vice’s essay on dementia and memory loss confronts the question of the bodily dissolution of the Holocaust witness. The genre of testimony has been, for nearly a century, the primary means of bearing witness to the atrocities...