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In his foreword to a book entitled La Fin de l’espoir by Juan Hermanos, Jean-Paul Sartre describes an incident that took place one night in Paris during the German occupation.1 He was working with a group of friends in a hotel room, when suddenly from the street below an anguished voice cried out for help. The group ran down to the dark, empty street. They looked around and saw no one. Finally, they returned to the hotel to resume work. But all night long the penetrating sound of the disembodied voice haunted them; they could not forget its strident plea.
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Jean-Paul Sartre, Préface a La Fin de l’espoir by Juan Hermanos (Paris: Editions Julliard, 1950) in Situations IV (Paris: Gallimard, 1964), pp. 77–79.
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity (New York: Collier Books, 1959), p. 135.
“Landscape of Screams” is the title of a poem by Nelly Sachs in O The Chimneys (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967).
Charlotte Delbo, None of Us Will Return, trans. John Githens (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968), p. 128.
Elie Wiesel, Legends of Our Time (New York: Avon Books, 1968), p. viii.
Elie Wiesel, A Jew Today, trans. Marion Wiesel (New York: Random House, 1978), p. 197.
Elie Wiesel, “Why I Write,” in Confronting the Holocaust: The Impact of Elie Wiesel, ed. Alvin Rosenfeld and Irving Greenberg (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978), p. 201.
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz p. 22.
Ibid., pp. 112–113.
Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (New York: Viking, 1950), pp. 264–65.
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, A Holocaust Reader (New York: Behrman House, 1976), p. 1.
Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942–1951 trans. Justin O’Brien (New York: Knopf, 1965), p. 84. Camus says, “Art is the distance that time gives to suffering. It is man’s transcendence in relation to himself. ”
David Grober, quoted in Lucy Dawidowicz, A Holocaust Reader p. 7.
Emmanuel Ringelblum, Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, trans. Jacob Sloan (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958). All further references will be noted in the text in parentheses.
Chaim A. Kaplan, The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan trans. Abraham Katsh (New York: Collier Books, 1973), p. 29. All further references will be noted in the text in parentheses.
Alvin H. Rosenfeld, A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980), p. 17.
Lawrence L. Langer, The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975), p. 3.
Mendel Mann, quoted by W. Rabi, “Vingt ans de littérature,” in D’ Auschwitz a Israel ed. Isaac Schneersohn (Paris: Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, 1968), pp. 363–64 (my translation).
Lucy Dawidowicz, A Holocaust Reader p. 10.
Ibid., p. 12.
Alexander Donat, Jewish Resistance (Waldon Press, 1964), in Out of the Whirlwind: A Reader of Holocaust Literature, ed. Albert H. Friedlander (New York: Schocken Books, 1976), p. 50.
Elie Wiesel, One Generation After (New York: Avon, 1977), p. 56.
Terrence Des Pres, The Survivor: An Anatomy ofLife in the Death Camps (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976), pp. 29, 38.
Alexander Donat, The Holocaust Kingdom (New York: Holocaust Library, 1963), pp. 62–63.
Charlotte Delbo, None of Us Will Return, trans. John Githens (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968), pp. 38–39.
Ibid., p. 56.
Elie Wiesel, A Jew Today p. 15.
Elie Wiesel, Night, trans. Stella Rodway (New York: Avon, 1960), p. 48.
Ibid., p. 76.
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Fine, E.S. (1983). The Surviving Voice. In: Braham, R.L. (eds) Perspectives on the Holocaust. Holocaust Studies Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6864-7_8
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