This paper seeks to analyze the work I Was a Child of Holocaust
Survivors by Bernice Eisenstein (2006), through the lens of Arbiter Testimony. The
work deals with the author's relationship with her parents, in which she tries to
understand her own life and the ghost of the Holocaust that is ever-present in her daily
life. This research aims to investigate how the Arbiter Testimony is presented in the
work, a concept addressed by Sarmento-Pantoja (2019), given that the arbiter of
testimony is given by the one who has heard and arbitrates on what and how to
narrate, and may or may not have experienced the boundary event. We will benefit
from the critical fortune of Vilela (2012), who discusses the importance of memory,
Gagnebin (2009), who discusses the importance of keeping memory alive through
narrations, and Sarmento-Pantoja (2019), who argues about the three types of
testimonies, the Testis, the Superstes, and the Arbiter. This study is the result of the
guidance received in the scientific initiation project Configurações de Resistência em
Narrativas Anglófonas Contemporâneas - CRENAC, in which I acted as a FAPESPA
(Fundação Amazônia de Amparo a Estudos e Pesquisas) fellow - the project is
coordinated by Profa.Dra. Ana Lilia Carvalho Rocha.
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