Growing up in the lager: literary testimonies in French language of childhood and adolescence in the concentration camp

Narrating the experience of deportation in nazi concentration camps is a highly complex task that grapples with issues related to the difficulty of transmission and Trauma Studies. Over the past two decades, there has been an increase in publications of testimonies from children of the Shoah, who have begun to narrate their memories motivated by the need to transmit their legacy to new generations and due to the natural disappearance of witnesses. This study aims to address the main characteristics of this new literary corpus to establish its bases and obtain a clear picture of the childhood experience in the camps.