Missing the Holocaust: My Father's Account of Auschwitz from August 1943 to June 1944

From: Anthropological Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract

Conversations with my father over many years reveal how genocides unfold invisibly in front of ethical witnesses. In August 1943, he was deported as a forced laborer by the French Vichy regime to work in the construction of the IG Farben petrochemical factory at Auschwitz, where h e was recruited into a resistance group. His precise recollection of exactly what he knew or did not know, and what resistance acts he and his companions undertook demonstrates how terror can make uncertainty a strategy for survival as well as resistance. My father dissects multiple contradictory ...

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