ABSTRACT
Historiography labels the presentation of historical events. Its method is historical criticism, and it aims to ascertain essential meaning of a source from its original historical context. In connection with the article of Andreas Hamburger, who focuses on the interview setting from a psychoanalytical perspective. This chapter focuses on a reconstruction of perpetration and extermination of Jews in Romanian Bessarabia and Transnistria. It also focuses on both narrative and nonnarrative aspects, on their relation to each other, and on their implications regarding the historiography of the Holocaust. Another narrative fissure in Shmuel testimony occurs in context of experiences in Transnistria, more precisely in the ghettos of Djurin and Murafa. In direct example of narrative fissure, Shmuel overlooks the death of his mother in his testimony, forcing the interviewer to insist upon its discussion. Trauma-induced characteristics of testimony, such as narrative fissures, demonstrate that it is not only the content but also form of testimony that draws picture of traumatic history.
