by Angela Davis; Published by Oral History Society (2019)
This article explores how Holocaust survivors narrate their relationships with their mothers, focusing on the emotional tension between closeness and distance. Drawing on forty oral‑history interviews with women who later lived in Britain and Israel, Davis examines how pre‑war family dynamics, wartime separation, migration, and later motherhood shaped survivors’ memories and self‑understanding. The study shows that mother‑child bonds were often marked by ambivalence, shifting attachments, and the long aftereffects of trauma.