ABSTRACT
Who can bear testimony to Auschwitz, given that its ‘true’ witnesses died in the gas chambers (Lyotard 1988: 3)? Herein lays the revisionists’ most serious trump: nobody can prove that he or she died there. But dowe not have survivors, testimonies, museums and miles of literature on the Holocaust? Why, then, take the problems of testimony and revisionism seriously? Because it is a symptom of a more fundamental problem: how are we to preserve the status of the Holocaust as a unique and living memory? Is it to be inscribed in the history books as one chapter among others, or is to be understood as a singular and traumatic event beyond comprehension?
