It Is Impossible to Remain Silent by Ioanid Radu

Author:Ioanid Radu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2019-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

Introduction

1. Translated from the French by Marion Wiesel, with a new preface by the author; foreword by François Mauriac (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006), 34.

2. All quotes here and in the next three paragraphs are from the interview “It Is Impossible to Remain Silent,” as translated in this volume.

3. Jorge Semprún, “Mon dernier voyage à Buchenwald,” Le Monde, March 6, 2010.

It Is Impossible to Remain Silent

1. Kleines Lager.

2. François Maspero later became an editor of controversial books on censored subjects, such as the use of torture during the hostilities in Algeria. A committed leftist, he owned a bookstore in the Latin Quarter. The shop became a gathering place for political activists.

3. Musulman was a slang term used in Nazi concentration camps for emaciated and exhausted inmates who appeared resigned to their impending death.

4. During the student-worker uprising of May 1968 in France, which paralyzed the country and challenged the establishment and Charles de Gaulle’s presidency, demonstrators tore up paving stones, set up barricades, occupied factories and universities, took over theaters and the Cannes Film Festival, and more. The Compagnies républicaines de sécurité (CRS) are a section of the police force trained to intervene during demonstrations and restore the peace. The group was created by de Gaulle in 1944. During the uprising in 1968, the demonstrators taunted the CRS with slogans implying that they were as cruel as the Nazi SS.

5. Buchenwald was liberated on that day.

6. Units of the Resistance engaged in sabotage, for example placing explosives, making armed attacks, and carrying out targeted assassinations.

7. The most senior prisoner functionaries in the camp.

8. The campgrounds used for roll call.

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