Felipe Juaristi signed in supplement Basque Journal of San Sebastian this review of No flowers or wreaths , entitled "Auschwitz-Birkenau" All countries have experienced a turbulent history owes a debt to its past. Some seek to avoid paying. Others filled in immediately, so they do not talk more about it. Both attitudes are, mijuicio, harmful to the discovery of the truth. Without it there can be no justice, but mystification and falsification of memory. And the truth must be assimilating to the extent that is coming, slowly.
In France there was a time when we wanted to empty the past: there were going to rush all the stories they wanted to hide and conceal. Vichy was not, apparently, an exception. Testimony appeared fragments of memories, threads that could reconstruct the past history. Todorov speaks of this in his wonderful book Front limit where discusses with his usual lucidity the world formed by the network of concentration camps. Odette
Elina was in Auschwitz and survived. The survivor is a special category of tough. Lacks
the past, he died with the others. Surviving is somehow to be left, pass through another path, which is not accepted as his.
Hence the dilemma of the survivor; lives while the majority of friends and acquaintances have died. This dilemma led to Primo Levi, Jean Amery, and others not to accept his fate, to join with those in a moment, Elina wrote sobrevivieron.Odette No flowers or wreaths for a specific purpose: "When I Auschwitz, in 1945, felt so intensely what he had to live that I could not keep it to myself to myself. I state in the notes and drawings that comprise this book. " She speaks little of the reasons I was sent to Auschwitz, but uniquely portrays seen.
Look and see, as you look to death, with tenderness.
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