More than 40 years had passed when Ruth Klüger wrote down her memories of the Holocaust and the lasting effects that arose from this experience. Her autobiography was published in 1992 as a German book titled "weiter leben. Eine Jugend." Klüger's construct of memory is revealed through a reference to literary sources - memory and fiction share a close interpretive space. Rosa Pérez Zancas examines the autobiographical and scholarly work of Ruth Klüger. The focus is on Klüger's continuous reference to literary sources. She questions the functionalization of intertextuality in the compilation of the work "weiter leben" and demonstrates that the literature Klüger draws upon can be seen as a common connection point between her and her German audience. Pérez Zancas identifies Klüger's co-authorship.