What do Bomba’s and Weiss’ testimonies teach us about the ways in which men and women might have experienced Nazi terror differently?
QUESTIONS 1. Question 1: Primo Levi (Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Auschwitz survivor) uses the concept of “the gray zone” to speak of the space inhabited by prisoners of the Nazis who become their accomplices. Why is this a philosophically meaningful zone to Levi—and (in his view) to humanity? 2. Question 2: What do Bomba’s […]