New Haven
The Holocaust, In The First Person
by | Aug 1, 2024 4:48 pm
Posted to: Visual Art
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.
