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31.03.2016

On the death of Imre Kertesz: with interminable pain and utter clarity.

 
 
Imre Kertesz © Csaba Segesvári / Wikipedia

Imre Kertesz © Csaba Segesvári / Wikipedia

 

 

 

On the death of the Hungarian-Jewish writer and Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee dedicated the following words in Berlin:

"Imre Kertesz was a powerful and precise voice of the Auschwitz survivors and an unsilenced voice of all the Jewish people who remained in Auschwitz. His memories, which he formulated for the present and the future of mankind, described without pathos, but with interminable pain and utter clarity, what human beings were capable of in Auschwitz and what they are still capable of today. All of us can be very grateful to Imre Kertesz for his memories, for his hopes and for his expectations from life, which, despite everything, he never wanted to abandon entirely."
 
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