Jacek Bomba

Overcoming impossible          61-64

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Summary

The essay was dedicated to late Professor Maria Orwid. The author discussed Maria Orwid's statements on memory of the Holocaust experience and on giving testimony on this experience. The discussion is done in context of other Survivors' writings and those of the thinkers who studied the problems. The emphasis was put on inadequacy of scientific language to the description of trauma experience, and on the Holocaust consequences for Survivors and witnesses.

keywords: Holocaust, trauma