Dispossession through terror and persecution in Jewish-German diaristic narratives by Victor Klemperer and Willy Cohn Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp
The German Jewish diarists Victor Klemperer and Willy Cohn kept diaries to preserve their individual identity and freedom of expression against the National Socialist regime. Klemperer in Dresden until 1945, Cohn in Breslau until his deportation in 1941. Their diaristic details reveal the victims' view of the permanent strangulation of their space of action. Everyday life, whose ephemeral character the diarists try to capture in their notes, is ...