How Do I Ask Them About the War? Collecting and Understanding Life Stories of Soldiers and Victims of War

Résumé du livre

Attempting to learn about the experiences of individuals who have lived through wars and genocides, as soldiers/perpetrators, victims or bystanders is a difficult task. The proposed workshop will present interview and analytical methods that have been found to be sensitive for study and work with such populations. The objectives of the workshop are to introduce researchers/ practitioners/educators to Life Story methodologies of interview and analysis. In the first part of the workshop, the Life Story method of interviewing will be described and explained. In the second part of the workshop, ways of analyzing the interviews will be presented. Examples from life stories with Holocaust perpetrators and victims, and with Palestinian and Jewish-Israelis who lived through the 1948 war will be presented. Participants will receive handouts, which include guidelines for the stages of interviewing, transcription and analysis.