 | David M. Szonyi - 1985 - 414 pages
...drowned, form the backbone of the camp, an anonymous mass, continually renewed and always identical . . . They crowd my memory with their faceless presences,...curved, on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen.6 At the risk of offending, it must be emphasized that the victims suffered... | |
 | Robert Jay Lifton - 1991 - 612 pages
...call their death death, in the face of which they have no fear, as they are too tired to understand. They crowd my memory with their faceless presences,...which is familiar to me: an emaciated man, with head drooped and shoulders curved, on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen.... | |
 | Amos Funkenstein - 2023 - 420 pages
...is, ipso facto, a candidate for survival. . . . They crowd my memory with their faceless presence, and if I could enclose all the evil of our time in...and in whose eyes not a trace of thought is to be seen. If the drowned have no story, and single and broad is the path to perdition, the paths to salvation... | |
 | Irving Greenberg - 2011 - 470 pages
...have no fear, as they are too tired to understand . . . their faceless presences . . . emaciated . . . with head dropped and shoulders curved, on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen."* It is one thing to gas people; it is another thing to burn the body and... | |
 | Emil L. Fackenheim - 1994 - 412 pages
...that Auschwitz was "the apotheosis of evil"; that anyone wanting to "comprehend" it has "comprehended If I could enclose all the evil of our time in one...and in whose eyes not a trace of thought is to be seen. 117 14. Jewish Existence after the Holocaust What is a Jew? Who is a Jew? These questions have... | |
 | Primo Levi - 1996 - 196 pages
...call their death death, in the face of which they have no fear, as they are too tired to understand. They crowd my memory with their faceless presences,...curved, on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen. If the drowned have no story, and single and broad is the path to perdition,... | |
 | Joanne Reilly - 1998 - 260 pages
...They formed the backbone of the camp: 'an anonymous mass, continually renewed and always identical ... if I could enclose all the evil of our time in one image, I would choose this image ... an emaciated man, with head dropped and shoulders curved, on whose face and in whose eyes not a... | |
 | Inga Clendinnen - 2002 - 242 pages
...avoid exhausting work, patch my shoes, steal a broom, or interpret the signs or faces around me'.1" * 'If I could enclose all the evil of our time in one...and in whose eyes not a trace of thought is to be seen'. Levi, If This Is a Man, p. 96. 'Interpret the signs or faces around me'. That last phrase encapsulates... | |
 | Terrence Merrigan, Jacques Haers - 2000 - 636 pages
...p. 252. 28. Ibid., p. 254. 29. P. LEVI. Survival in Auschwit2 (n. 4). p. 90. They [the muselmanner] crowd my memory with their faceless presences, and...curved, on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen. If the drowned have no story, and single and broad is the path to perdition,... | |
 | Tod Linafelt - 2000 - 308 pages
...call their death death, in the face of which they have no fear, as they are too tired to understand. ..if I could enclose all the evil of our time in one...curved, on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen. l8 Among the reactions of those who managed, often by sheer chance, to stay... | |
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They crowd my memory with their faceless presences, and if I could enclose all the evil of our time in one image, I would choose this image which is familiar to me: an emaciated man, with head dropped and shoulders curved, on whose face and in whose eyes... 
