GERMAN 59 Lecture : Holocaust_Study_Guide
Document Summary
German 59, the holocaust in film and literature (fall 2018) Memory (memoirs) duty to bear witness for the dead and for the living. Primo levi: to attest to something as a witness. Witness: someone who knows and experienced something. Survivor of another"s death, death has overcome others. Interrupted by traumatic past: resurfacing of painful memories. Self-reflective present: elements of future hope and/or learning. Raises questions of ethics - impossible to answer until you are confronted with the urgency of a choice. Armenian genocide: targeting of christian populations by ottoman. International community: disbelief, don"t have the capability, not out problem, don"t want to get involved. 1948 convention on the prevention of punishment and genocide: declared genocide a crime under international law, power to do something. Humans reduced to being the living dead . Forced to live on the edge of dying. Struggle to find language to put events of this magnitude into narratives.
