'The chapters on the playwrights, Weiss, Hochhuth and especially Miller, offer enlightening insights …' The Times Literary Supplement
1. The past remembered; 2. W. G. Sebald: an act of restitution; 3. Rolf Hochhuth: breaking the silence; 4. Peter Weiss: the investigation; 5. Arthur Miller: the rememberer; 6. Anne Frank: everybody's heroine; 7. Jean Améry: home and language; 8. Primo Levi: from the darkness to the light; 9. Elie Wiesel: to forget is to deny; 10. Tadeus Borowski: the world of stone; 11. Memory theft; Coda.