Surviving "Survivors": A Review of An Interactive Program on the Holocaust.

A review of: Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual history Foundation. (1999). Survivors: Testimonies of the Holocaust. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, Inc. Media : Two CD set, $29.95, ISBN: 0-784-91643-8.
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If there is anything worse for historical memory than Holocaust denial it is Holocaust affirmation. Leo Lowenthal, a member of the Frankfurt School who escaped the Nazis, famously observed that "Mass culture is psychoanalysis in reverse" (quoted in Jay 1996:173) and Steven Spielberg seems hell-bent to prove Lowenthal's point with Survivors, a two CD-ROM disk set on the Holocaust built around the oral histories of four Jewish Americans who survived the Nazi death camps. Excerpts from the interviews are presented in such a way not to uncover the repressed, but to bury it deeper.