Trial and length of imprisonment were not a part of the decision to send people to Boven Digoel and Theresienstadt. The people going to the two camps were never allowed to know the trajectory of their lives from the point of their deportation on. They did not know how and whether their “as yet” might end. In Theresienstadt, much closer, intimately close, to Auschwitz, they, often with the greatest effort, rather would not know.
Legitimizing Fascism Through the Holocaust?
As the Holocaust becomes increasingly present in the political discourse in the US, Europe and Israel, we republish this reflection…
Images of Rebirth and the DP Camps in Southern Puglia
What do we do today with these uplifting images? What do we imply when we attribute to them meanings that…
A Note From A Refugee of 75 Years Ago
You are right in that that the spiritual tensions in the man can be eased by telling someone about them,…
Never Again What?
The ongoing relevance of Levi’s work is not its ecumenical lesson against intolerance—in the vein of Anne Frank’s diary for…
