A survivor in the most brutal and despicable of the atrocities committed by the Nazis, recounted in the book of the death march, Mishael Shtivelman now provides us, in collaboration with his wife Raquel, the history of the Holocaust throughout the world during the past centuries. The result is a treatise, and at the same time, reflection on the barbarity - the necessary and mandatory for today's reader.
As in the book of the death march, written after 50 years of silence, and in the book sign of the Genocide, is seen an attempt to fulfill the debt. They were carried out as a mission to fulfill an obligation to those who are already dead, to their people, to history and humanity. "Always remember and do so always remember," said Shtivelman. It was an appeal, which expressed the Jews during the executions, as a last appeal to those who remain: the need to write - to write, so do not forget to tell that the memory was still living.
Experience Shtivelmana sends us to the writer Primo Levi and Jorge Simprun, one Italian and the other - a Spaniard, both survivors of concentration camps and tried to forget about his experiences. But the memory is stronger than the desire to suppress it. She insists and is reborn in the form of nightmares and hallucinations.
Like Mishael, Semprun tried to forget for 50 years. "The deliberate and systematic neglect the experience of concentration camps. Oblivion including writing," he said in Writing and Life, a book to break the silence that led to the return of the past.
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