ABSTRACT
The relative absence and presence of self is critical shaper of the social and emotional contours of being in the world. In Holocaust remembrance there are two kinds of absence to be considered: one is the personal absence of living victim from many of social worlds of Israel; the other is the absence that the doers of Holocaust perpetrated. The living victim must turn her absence from the social world into her presence, as she rises from within herself to the social surface to the interface of selfhood and social order. During the workshop, victims are taught to tell stories each of a few minutes duration on their experiences in the Holocaust. One of the major ideological changes of recent years in Israel is this turning of the living Holocaust victim into the Holocaust survivor. Survivors who become witnesses by telling personal stories and by giving eyewitness accounts are the most empowered of those who have lived through the Holocaust.
