Question

Key detail analysis. Re-read the sentences below:

“In this place of darkness and malediction we can but stand in awe and remember its stateless, faceless and nameless victims. Close your eyes and look: endless nocturnal processions are converging here, and here it is always night. Here heaven and earth are on fire.”

Why do you think he refers to Auschwitz as a place of “darkness and malediction”?

Answer 1

Auschwitz is an infamous concentration camp where it is estimated more than a million Jews met their fate horrifically and maliciously. Therefore, the author used the words “darkness and malediction” to describe Auschwitz because it was indeed a sort of hell on Earth.