ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book draws attention to the multilayered process of remembering at work in France, the German Democratic Republic, and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. It offers private memories in the representations of the Second World War and the Holocaust. The analysis of works by Charlotte Delbo and Jorge Semprun highlights the centrality and specificity of their portrayals of Jewish experiences of deportation contexture wider narratives of resistance and political deporation. The book argues that the use of travel to represent the Holocaust does not necessarily lead to trivialization or aestheticization. It concludes the choice of a French setting and the French language in order to speak of Germany in Maren Sell's Mourir d'absence, and the use of German frames of reference in French memory discourses in the case of Le Garrec's La Rive allemande de ma memoire.
