Voices of Silence in Holocaust Survivors: a Return to Life?

Abstract

This paper shows the analysis of three autofiction comic books fo-cussed on different silences of deport-ed during and after the Shoah. The heros are Jewish children who survived hiding in silence thanks to the solidari-ty of the Righteous among the Na-tions. The analysis of these three com-ics, L'enfant cachée (Lizano, Dauvillier & Salsedo), Deuxième génération (Kichka) and L’agneau qui ne voulait pas être un mou-ton (Jean & Zad), shows the voice of three survivors who managed to break their silence of more than sixty years. We will focus on the God silence, the silence of the rescued who prefers to say nothing, which right to say was denied, who has disappeared in ashes... We will emphasize the memorial litera-ture of trials authors Wieviorka, Levinas and Friedemann, among oth.ers