Holocaust, and how Primo Levi survived his imprisonment in Auschwitz. Specifically, it will answer the questions: What perspective does Levi provide on day-to-day survival within Auschwitz? Is there order amidst the chaos of mass murder? Primo Levi' Continue Reading...
They knew that they had to remove the 'sub-human threat' and they did not hesitate to do everything in their power in order to be successful. Browning described how the individuals in the Reserve Police Battalion 101 were not necessarily indifferen Continue Reading...
This may also account for Eliezer's interpretation of Moshe's account of the slaughter at the hands of the Gestapo: he feels that the man must be lying -- he also believes that the rest of his town rejects his story as well. However, it is quite lik Continue Reading...
For example, the essentially female nature of the author's suffering is embodied in her tale of Karola, a woman who cleverly hides the age of her daughter, so she will allow the child to be admitted through the gates of Auschwitz by her side. Sara N Continue Reading...
Auschwitz gave to Promo Levi when he dared to ask the "Why?" question. To be sure, the guard was simply attempting to be cynical and sarcastic rather than reflective or philosophical, but LaCapra is also critical of Claude Lanzmann for failing to as Continue Reading...
Art Spiegelman, Maus Art Spiegelman's classic graphic novel Maus -- published in two parts, in 1986 and with a sequel five years later in 1991 -- depicts not just a "survivor's tale" from Auschwitz as advertised in the subtitle, to a certain degree Continue Reading...
Survival in Auschwitz One of the most tragic periods in world history was the period in the 1930s and 1940s when certain people decided to turn the world into a graveyard. When Adolf Hitler took power in Germany, he went about a plan to completely e Continue Reading...
