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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1986 1(1):147-153; doi:10.1093/hgs/1.1.147
© 1986 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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ON SEEING THE INVISIBLE DIMENSIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST

JOHN K. ROTH

Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College Claremont, California

The greatest Holocaust literature makes visible the invisible dimensions of history. Moving beyond the analysis of cause and effect, penetrating subjective experience deeper than any science can, it strives to reveal what cannot be seen because once-existing eyes have been glazed by death. Auschwitz was full of eyes. Some watched them and survived, including those of Ka-tzetnik 135633. That is not Yehiel Dinur's real name. And yet it is, because this young reporter in pre-war Poland saw those figures etched into the flesh of his left arm. Dinur lived to write. Worthy of greater attention than they have received, the prose poems in his Star Eternal (New York: Arbor House, 1971) are among the unrivaled gems of Holocaust reflection.


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