Zoltán Kékesi is associate professor at the Department of Art Theory and Curatorial Studies at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest.

"In this powerful volume, the Hungarian-born scholar and researcher Zoltán Kékesi examines selected artworks produced over the past three decades that transform or reframe social memory of the Shoah. the author contends persuasively that paradigms and concepts of Holocaust memory have in fact shifted significantly from the era in which survivor testimony and trauma were the dominant tropes, beginning in the aftermath of the war, when recordings of survivor accounts were first made. The identity of survivor and witness began to emerge as a result of the Eichmann trial of 1961 and of psychological research into the sequelae of trauma, as practices of remembrance and 'memorial culture' developed in the West in the late 1970s and 1980s and valorized public accounts of personal experience. Persuasively elaborating the concern of contemporary artists and filmmakers to mobilize an interactive approach that engages with the present, Zoltán Kékesi's major study makes a vibrant, provocative and necessary contribution to the literature on Holocaust memory, representation and transmission."

• Introduction Part I: The Politics of Testimony Chapter 1 The Reappropriation of Violence: The Speech of the Resistance Fighters, Claude Lanzmann: Shoah (1985) and Sobibór, 14 October 1943, 4pm (2001(, Chapter 2 The Restoration of Difference: The Speech of the Perpetrator, Claude Lanzmann: Shoah (1985) Part II: The Archive, In Spite of All Chapter 3 The Melancholy of the Archive Chapter 4 The Afterlife of Images, Harun Farocki: Respite (2007), Chapter 5 Mediating the Perpetrator’s Speech, Romuald Karmakar: The Himmler Project (2000), Chapter 6 In the Leading Role: Adolf Eichmann, Eyal Sivan: The Specialist (1999) Part III: Site and Speech Chapter 7 The Erasure of the Trace: The Restoration of Meaning, Artur Żmijewski: 80064 (2004), Chapter 8 Trauma and Simulacra, Omer Fast: Spielberg’s List (2003), Chapter 9 From the Culture of Grief to the Politics of Imagination, Yael Bartana: Polish Trilogy (2007–2011), Chapter 10 Agents of Liberation Clemens von Wedemeyer: Rushes (2012), Bibliography, Index