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