Module C:

Module C:

1. History

   • Ecce Homo - Komoski
     • Other Prisoners and their gaunt figures
       • Vector for the doorframe
         • Fully clothed awaiting same fate, a representation of the constant suffering at the camps and the continuation of torture
   • 50th Gate - Baker
     • Years -1945 and dates of places Aushwitz, Treblinka
       • Doubts his father's memory "hinda and Leibush were married in Weizerbnik
         • verisimiltude to emphasise where the document came from (Polish archives)
     • (Grandfather Leo Krochmal) Animal Imagery - Old age tarnished his noble aura as his mind fell prey to dementia
       • To imply the weakness of memory as it 'fell prey' implying destructive and inescapable force of old age, making him less relabel than documented evidence
     • Personification "when I exhausted memory i turned to history'
       • There is a certain limit to the amount of memory one can access at time but history is infinite

2. Memory

   • Komoski's various artworks are visual representations of his memories as a Aushwitz prisoner
     • Colour symbolism Red (anger) and Blue (sadness)
   • Baker and Yossl visit the graveyards
     • "can you hear or do the screams from the mass graves drown out the sound
       • sensory imagery - emphasising memory as a reality
   • Genia's realisation of the importance of her memories
     • Emotional statement - "so always remember it and your children will remember it"
       • asyndeton- memories will be passed on in generations providing freedom
   • '..what photograph will capture the plight of a motherless child, banished to an orphanage?"
     • Symbolic evocative dialogue - history is incapable of representing emotions recalled in memory
   • Emacinated naked man .
     • Salient image
       • reinforcing the feeling of vulnerability, exhaustion, and general despair evoked in the viewer throughout the painting as a whole

3. Inevitable that history of documented evidence and personal recollections are both equally vital in achieving overarching accounts of an events