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Language In The Holocaust

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"People who do not understand your silence will never understand your words"(Tailwind Team). If a person remains silent, other people won't always understand what is being conveyed with that silence. In the Holocaust, the victims were so traumatized that they couldn't find a way to tell their stories. How does one communicate what is unable to be said? When one makes an effort to communicate the unspeakable, it reveals that language can be inadequate as anaphora and visuals are needed to convey the gruesome details of the Holocaust.

As the few survivors tried to express their feelings, they realized that language can be inadequate as the horrific events were impossible to accurately explain. Sometimes, words have different meanings than what
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What can a person do if their language is tainted with malevolent intentions towards others, how about after sixty millions of their own people are inhumanly slaughtered with little to no respect? Nothing can ease a person’s trauma and torment, attempting to explain an event of such horrific context is extremely for a survivor of said event. However, another problem arises, how one thoroughly explains an event that they desperately do not want to relive. Many Holocaust survivors, who are literary geniuses, use a variety of methods in order to express their opinions and experiences to the reader. Elie Wiesel’s use of repetition, Art Spiegelman’s use of a bizarre genre to create symbolism while explaining euphemisms, and many survivors opening up to the younger generation at Holocaust themed museums.

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Although it is extremely difficult to express unspeakable and horrible events, the use of poetic language and artistic expression help significantly. One strategy used to explain the unspeakable is poetic language. In Document A, an excerpt from Night by Elie Wiesel, repeatedly employs the same phrase “never shall I forget”. (Document A) Not only does this excerpt use poetic language to express the unspeakable and horrific events that happened to Elie and all the other Jews, it also uses repetition to drive the point even further as one reads through the excerpt.

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By using such heavy emotions, both authors were able to articulate their experiences with the Holocaust and those around them. The two authors also successfully managed to capture an audience that appeals outside of the works timeframe. With an event as memorable as the Holocaust, it’s not difficult to focus plenty of attention on the event, but both authors managed to appeal to people who could not possibly have any real insight on the happenings of the Holocaust. The

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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.

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