...particularly useful for my analysis. Referring to oral testimonies from Auschwitz survivors, Langer writes: Deep memory tries to recall the Auschwitz self as...dual function: it restores the self to its normal pre-post camp routines but also offers detached portraits, from the vantage point of today, of what...

...by what Charlotte Delbo calls "deep memory" and "common memory." Langer amplifies Delbo's concepts: "Deep memory tries to recall the Auschwitz self as...then. Deep memory thus suspects and depends on common memory."8 Sender further complicates the relationship by displacing deep memory through her recourse...

...profonde" und „memoire ordinaire", „deep memory" und „common memory" in der Übersetzung Langers. Deep memory tries to recall the Auschwitz self as...point of today, of what it must have been like then. [...] It is a form of reassurance designed to sedate the surge of deep memory, that constantly threatens...

...events which allows her to represent an integrated vision of herself. As Langer states of common memory: 'it restores the self to its normal pre- and post-camp...point of today, of what it must have been like then' (ibid.: 6). Deportees may accentuate the positive; accounts may be edulcorated versions of 'the truth':...

...functions to "restore the self to its normal pre- and post-camp routines," but is also problematic for it "offers detached portraits, from the vantage point of today, of what it must have been like."44 Deep memory thus depends on common memory to speak, but also suspects it is "knowing what...