Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Module C:
- 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
- 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
- Inevitable that history of documented evidence
and personal recollections are both equally vital
in achieving overarching accounts of an events