1. As we begin our discussion on Tuesday with where we left off (the chapter titled "Old Words, New Meanings"), note a word or words that you notice are evidence of the changed landscape of language after the Holocaust. In other words, what ordinary terms does Nomberg-Przytyk use that have a changed meaning in the context of her narrative?
2. What examples of compassion does Nomberg-Przytyk relate? What examples of inhumanity does she relate? How does she attempt to relate the fine line between humanity and inhumanity?
3. How does reading Nomberg-Przytyk's narrative (as well as that of Primo Levi) differ from the documentary film testimony we viewed in Shoah? How does the memoir/narrative mode differ from the archive footage combined with narrative we viewed in Night and Fog and Memory of the Camps? What differences in expectations and approach do you notice when encountering film versus literature?
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