Shoah

The time when the voice of the last witness of the genocide of the Jews of Europe by the Nazis will be extinguished is coming. What will it be then, from the memory of this unprecedented catastrophe in history? Who will echo the voices of those who saw the crime? Is it possible to convey the memory of the Shoah, the destruction of the Jews? Wouldn't it be better, perhaps, to leave the place forgotten to heal the wounds? Given these serious questions, Carles Torner proposes here a pedagogy of memory focused on the movie Shoah, a masterpiece of cinema known throughout the world and until today almost unknown in Catalonia.

This book explores the tension between the word and the witness's silence, between the need to know what happened in the death camps and the imperative to preserve the opacity of the crime. Nobody goes unscathed, there is always a before and after watching the movie. There is transmission: listening to the voices, remembering Shoah's faces so that, in turn, we can narrate the unspeakable.