The Sound of Voices Intoning Names
Thomas Laqueur, 5 June 1997
French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial
by Serge Klarsfeld.
New York, 1881 pp., $95, November 1996,0 8147 2662 3 Show More
by Serge Klarsfeld.
New York, 1881 pp., $95, November 1996,
“... of the period to conclude that the Holocaust is simply ‘un-representable’. The brilliance of Serge Klarsfeld’s book is that it maintains in shimmering tension the claims of history – to give an objective account of the past – with those of memory: the subjective, the discrete, the momentary brought to life in the present. Whether by intention ... ”