survivor account
Firsthand trauma story
A survivor account is a firsthand narrative from someone who lived through a traumatic or historically significant event—war, genocide, natural disaster, or personal catastrophe.
The term appears frequently in Holocaust studies and journalism: The museum preserves survivor accounts from Auschwitz.
In banking, a survivor account (or survivorship account) is a joint account that passes automatically to the surviving holder upon death.
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- personal testimonyIndividual's firsthand narrative
- witnessOne who attests
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- escapeFlight from captivity
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- illness storieshealing journey, mental health story, brain injury, spinal injury, symptom journal
- testimonyoral testimony, court testimony, sworn testimony, witness statements, sworn statements
- life storiesautobiography, memoir, memoirs, biography, biographies
- personal writingdiary, journal, autobiographical essay, memoir, memoirs
- Plague FictionThe Stand, World War Z, The Decameron, The Andromeda Strain, epidemic
survivor accounthearsay
Unverified secondhand information
secondary source · rumor · official report · academic analysis · official history
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