The Holocaust, In The First Person

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The Holocaust, In The First Person

Hanna Feiler: "I was hungry and she was hungry. What choice did I have?"

How do we talk about something for which we have no words? How do we develop a vocabulary for a tragedy of such volume that the human language does not encapsulate it?

The Beinecke library’s new exhibit, In the First Person: The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, has perhaps the only answer: We let the survivors speak for themselves.