Fragments: Transcribing the Holocaust - Tapa blanda

This beautiful, important book combines poetry and personal stories from three remarkable women who made the journey from Auschwitz to Cardiff. Frances Rapport has given future generations and the field of social history an invaluable legacy by recording the immensely moving accounts of these survivors. --Back cover quote: Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Psychology, Cambridge University (England)

Frances Rapport's ethnopoetic practice telescopes moments in the testimony of these witnesses. The witnesses' words are not changed, but they are edited for emphasis, to render more hearable - and less escapable - what could get lost, or be evaded, in the telling. The metaphor of gardening may best express the method of Rapport's work: clearing away to allow certain plants to grow, including growing in their visibility. --Foreword: Arthur W. Frank, Professor of Sociology, Calgary University (Canada)

Professor Rapport has written a powerful and insightful book about the strength of the individual over the adversity of their circumstances. The book speaks to our human ability to overcome great hardship and to manage the detritus of the trauma that is left. Thus, the book speaks of both the worst and of the best in humanity. --Afterword: Lord Greville Janner QC

Frances Rapport's ethnopoetic practice telescopes moments in the testimony of these witnesses. The witnesses' words are not changed, but they are edited for emphasis, to render more hearable - and less escapable - what could get lost, or be evaded, in the telling. The metaphor of gardening may best express the method of Rapport's work: clearing away to allow certain plants to grow, including growing in their visibility. --Foreword: Arthur W. Frank, Professor of Sociology, Calgary University (Canada)

Professor Rapport has written a powerful and insightful book about the strength of the individual over the adversity of their circumstances. The book speaks to our human ability to overcome great hardship and to manage the detritus of the trauma that is left. Thus, the book speaks of both the worst and of the best in humanity. --Afterword: Lord Greville Janner QC

Anka Bergman, Terry Farago and Edith Salter all survived Auschwitz. Their witness testimony was recorded in recent years in Cardiff (Wales) by Frances Rapport, who sensitively condensed their words so as to create powerful poetic transcriptions of their extraordinary life stories. As Arthur W. Frank writes in his Foreword: These stories remind us what humans can inflict on each other, utterly negating our common humanity. But we also hear the human capacity to survive, to mutually aid, to continue to love and affirm life. -- Edith Salter passed away in 2011; Anka Bergman (who, with her daughter Eva, was the subject of the 2011 BBC documentary, The Baby Born In A Concentration Camp) passed away in July 2013. As the survivors pass away, the task of remembering, of passing on their individual stories, set against the backdrop of the unimaginable scale of the Holocaust, falls on all of us. This book performs that task. -- Proceeds of sales go to registered charity no.1125649, Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group.