ABSTRACT
This chapter charts and analyzes how family stories and eyewitness testimonies of Holocaust-related events, even concerning names and numbers, can clash with written sources that become accessible decades later. My case study is the story of my own family and how I tried to reconstruct my family’s past. In the broader sense, it is a case study of how contemporary historians cautiously navigate a never-ending labyrinth of emerging evidence, during their Sisyphean attempt to reconstruct what actually happened.
