Buried Words: reflections on the diary of Molly Applebaum

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article focuses on the diary of Molly Applebaum to explore how scholars have interpreted the rare diaries and survivor accounts testifying to sexual violence during the Holocaust. While historians, for example, have much to learn from these primary sources, we need to be sure that we do not impose our own concerns and preoccupations. We have to also be cautious about reading into them meanings that were not there and to think very seriously about the politics of what we are doing.