ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I approach these questions from a relational ethics of care. I begin with the discussion that took place after my presentation. For guidance in addressing the issues raised there about compassionate research, I call on work on ethics from feminist, oral history, and autoethnography scholars, as well as from those writing about relational ethics in health care. I discuss concerns that arise in doing research with those we already know or with whom we form relationships during the research process, as is the case in my work with Holocaust survivor, Jerry Rawicki. To open up a conversation about how compassionate research from a relational ethics of care might take place in practice, I end with a story that portrays my relationship with Jerry as we visit Treblinka, where his family members were murdered.
