ABSTRACT
The reception of Shoah survivors along with their traumatic memories in Israel initially went through a long moment of distrust and silencing. The opposition between the Diaspora Jew – seen as passive in the face of Nazi aggression – and the new, Zionist Jew meant that private histories of humiliation and suffering did not find room in this emerging society until the Eichmann trial. This article seeks to explain how and why, in this context, specific forms of Holocaust representation defined as illegitimate literature, such as Ka-Tzetnik’s publications and the so-called Stalags, gained space in Israel before the Eichmann trial. To this end, it analyzes relevant literature to show the disturbing union between the Holocaust and pornography as the way that generation found to deal with memories of suffering then latent in public and private spaces.
Keywords
Shoah; Ka-Tzetnik;
Stalags
; Memory; Trauma