Robert N. Kraft's research while affiliated with Otterbein University and other places

Publications (2)

Article
Videotaped oral testimony of Holocaust survivors documents the extended (disjointed) memories of individuals who suffered through the industrial cruelty of the Third Reich. This testimony is studied cognitively in an effort to understand memory for atrocity and to characterize the enduring influences of such memory on the lives of the survivors. Un...

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... Historically, Holocaust survivors have contended with disbelief, or the audience's inability to comprehend the extent of survivors' suffering. At times, attempts to narrate experience fail to relay the weight of atrocity (Kraft, 2006). The response of the audience confirms whether the narrator has succeeded in revealing the gravity of the experiences. ...