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Drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, James Hatley uses the prose of Primo Levi and Tadeusz Borowski, as well as the poetry of Paul Celan, to question why witnessing the Shoah is so pressing a responsibility for anyone living in its aftermath. He argues that the witnessing of irreparable loss leaves one in an irresoluble quandary but that the attentiveness of that witness resists the destructive legacy of annihilation. "In this new and sensitive synthesis of scrupulous thinking about the Holocaust (beginning with scruples about the term Holocaust itself), James Hatley approaches all the major questions surrounding our overwhelming inadequacy in the aftermath of the irreparable. If there is anything unique (in a non-trivial sense) about the Holocaust, surely it is the imperious moral urgency that compels those who contemplate it to revise their view of what it means to be human, and to bear witness to such an event.
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Christopher Stevens
reviewed The Holocaust survivor's experience of death and dying on August 26, 2018
The Holocaust survivor's experience of death and dying
Langer, who has observed over 300 hours of Holocaust testimony (I can't even begin to imagine), examines the memories of Holocaust survivors with five specific categories. Although he provides more than enough actual testimony his purpose is in trying to explain how that particular trauma has affected memory. So, this isn't really a history book, but it's not a psychological exploration either. Langer, an English professor, uses literary analysis and philosophical exploration to examine the memories. For me, the memory categories were useful, although at times contrived, and, not being up a literary critic or philosopher myself, felt a little lost in the passages that continually referred to Nietzche and Proust.
However, his examination of the memories is extremely powerful and very painful. In all my reading on the Holocaust, I can't say that I have ever been so personally moved (and distraught). From an historical perspective, I am reminded of the pitfalls, but also the immense value, or using oral testimony in research.
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