Their Narrative Is Our Heritage: In Memoriam of Holocaust Victims

... liberation of Auschwitz Nazi death camp's in Oswiecim, Poland The camps composed an extraordinary space, where law was suspended, while reality and law became indiscernible, making the horrible reality possible. This approach produces the definition of the Holocaust as violence generated by the elite, in this case by the German elite. It required the camps to establish a space of exception , commit genocide and help people outside that space to carry on living at peace with their consciousness. And the narratives of Primo Levi corroborate this idea. Initiation in the concentration camp was a monstrous ritual intended to break the newcomer's will....