Word: auschwitz
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Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin, too, is tied to the stilled remnants of the German Jewish community. He did not hazard the baseness of memorializing the dead at the place of their annihilation. What could a memorial at Auschwitz do but divert us from Auschwitz? There are reasons we do not place gravestones in the charnel pits...
DIED. ALFRED KANTOR, 79, artist who rendered rare scenes of daily life in concentration camps; of complications from Parkinson's disease; in Yarmouth, Maine. As a prisoner at Auschwitz and other camps, Kantor destroyed many of his pieces just after painting or drawing them for fear of retribution. He then re-created scenes--of corpses, crematoriums, and guards--from memory...
...that would give her the chance to make her Covent Garden debut? Then she read the book. "I was a little bit anxious," she recalls, struggling to find the words in English to convey how overwhelmed she was by the story, whose central character, a Polish gentile survivor of Auschwitz, is forced to choose which of her two children will live. "I'm still a little anxious," she confessed shortly before opening night. The emotional demands of Sophie's story frightened Kirchschlager, but also fired her creative energy. "I have to do things I've never done onstage before...
...Imre Kertesz, 72, is not well known in the U.S.: only two of his books have been translated into English. But he is also somewhat of a stranger in his native country. His low profile may be in part because of the dense themes in his writing. Sent to Auschwitz at age 14 in 1944, Kertesz was transferred to, and subsequently liberated from, Buchenwald in 1945. He returned to Hungary only to endure communist rule for four decades. In his novels and essays he revisits the Holocaust, pondering, in the words of the Nobel Committee, "the fragile experience...
...Jewish police; unofficially, and certainly without authorization, Rosenfeld also kept careful notes on daily life....He records the rumors that sweep the community - including, ominously, on concerning the extermination in a kind of bathhouse of hundreds of Jews at a time. The rumor was true: Rosenfeld died at Auschwitz in 1944, leaving this extraordinary testimonial. A singular contribution to the literature and history of the Shoah...