Word: holocaustal
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...reconstituted by the witness can never come back. As a result, the glance reconstituted by the witness or represented by the artist can only be partial. If this inherent inadequacy of representations does not excuse the frolicking Roberto Benigni from critique, it does explain the indignation that almost every Holocaust film provokes among some portion of its viewers and critics...
...relegate the horrors of the Holocaust and those responsible for them to the realm of pure anomaly, to make them singular and unrepresentable—this is a failure to confront the moral complexity and the danger that those evetns reveal...
...love museums. They speak to a part of my identity wholly separate from the Holocaust. Working there is not just about fulfilling my responsibility to my past, but to myself...
...first thing I think about when it comes to the Holocaust is my hair. It’s brown and curly, and throughout my life has fallen somewhere between my ears and waist. I’d hazard to call it Jewish hair. I’ve had mixed feelings about it—for two years during high school I chemically straightened it—but it’s very much part of who I am. For no real reason, I’m proud...
...always wear my hair down when I attend Holocaust events. Partially, I suppose, in defiance of all the heads of my relatives that were forcibly shorn. But more so because it helps me reinforce my connection to 1945. The Holocaust is something I’ve inherited. And for reasons that I still don’t fully understand, I’m proud that it’s a part...