Some have words but others do not use words and some can describe the trauma they have been through in different ways and techniques. In other words, one can say the unspeakable in different ways. Certain words and meaning changed once the holocaust was over. For an example an oven before meant for something to cook in/Bake now too Jews it may mean they were placed into ovens to die. In addition, it states, “use a language to… make out specifications for gas ovens”. Meaning that if someone was to go against the Nazi and help the Jews through certain languages that if someone was to go against the Nazis and knew they would immediately die just because that Nazi helped that Jew. Someone can describe the unspeakable they have been through in different ways besides verbal encounters. Some ways are verbal, music, poems/repetitions of words, also art and symbols.
One way for one to say the unspeakable is verbal. A person who has experienced the holocaust can tell you better than they can show you. In document A entitled “Never Shall I Forget” in the first
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Some people can express their hurt or feelings through music , or even remember certain things through music. In document, B entitled “Someone”, in the novel of “man’s search for meaning” By Viktor Frankl who was also a part of the holocaust it states, “The violin wept and a part of me wept with it, for on that same day someone had a twenty-fourth birthday. That someone lay in another part of the Auschwitz camp.” One night while Frankl was imprisoned in Auschwitz, he could hear violin music playing at a celebration being held at the Nazi’s officer headquarters. Frankl remembered the unspeakable by the violin music that was playing and the same night his wife Tilly turned twenty-four and was completely out of his reach from him, she passed away eventually at the Bergen-Belson concentration camp. He related to the violin music that he wept with that