Abstract This article focuses on ways in which Romanian Jews remembered and represented their past while in exile. The recorded oral and written testimonies of Sorana Ursu, Rosa Meir, and artists Hedda Sterne, Marcel Iancu, and Daniel Spoerri reveal how through the act of testifying, identity and life-story are not only recalled but also created. All these witnesses survived the trauma of the Holocaust, and this historical moment shaped their socio-political and life perspective. Their narratives of trauma and reconstruction of the self are presented and analyzed through the prism of the exile experience and the concepts of active forgetting and narrative identity.
Olga Ştefan (2026) studied this question.