Kindness of Truth and the Art of Reading Ashes: 38 (American University Studies, Series 9: History) - Tapa dura

-...I find this truly to be research of a very high order. It speaks of a great deal of work, a mastery of style and a great deal of courage in attempting to remember, to give the social a logic which is truly its own.- (J.W. Mohr, York University)
-Through his phenomenological vision Lustigman makes available vignettes of the most tender and precious human possibilities - and these in the very midst of unimaginable scenes of devastation and cruelty.- (J.N. Porter, York University)
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It is one thing to know about Auschwitz, it is another thing to learn from what one knows. Using diaries, journals and other written fragments which members of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau had interred alongside the ashes of the annihilated, "Kindness" "of Truth and the Art of Reading Ashes" profiles an instance of learning. The text suggests that while Auschwitz names an event in time, it also names a relation which extends beyond time and that to mind this double register of Auschwitz one cannot but be mindful of the ways that this register remarks on our times.