L’article présente une analyse des traces paysagères « éphémères » ou « légères » laissées par l’expérience de Juifs ayant survécu à la Shoah dans la forêt en Pologne et en ex-URSS. Marginalisée pendant la période de la domination soviétique au profit du grand récit héroïque officiel sur la lutte des partisans, cette mémoire non matérielle subsiste dans des témoignages oraux. Dès lors, il faut chercher son empreinte dans les reconstitutions verbales du paysage, notamment les expressions trouvées par les survivants pour relater leur vécu.
Mots clés : Holocauste, Shoah, caché, forêt, arbre, animal, témoignage, témoignage oral, survivant, survivance, trace.
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