The Holocaust has generated a vast literary corpus and as Elie Wiesel said, it has generated a new type of literature: the “Testimonial”. More than seventy years has passed since the end of Second World War and today, the repercussions of the Holocaust are still widely felt. This document explores the trauma narrative; specifically, “Semillas de Dios” written by Judith Klein, an Auschwitz survivor. She probes not only about the horror, but she also builds bridges between her life and her writing. She assumes several different identities generating an intimate text, resembling a personal diary. This work can be summarized in five chapters: (i) the relevance of the testimony, (ii) literal and exemplary memory, (iii) identities inside the text, (iv) style and digressions and finally, (v) God as the receptor and the profound spirituality present in the book. With all this, Klein creates transcendence of an historical event.
Codner Dujovne, K. (2020). Semillas de Dios: In search of transcendence. Cuadernos Judaicos, (37), 88–124. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8749.2020.60574
