Zaporizhzhia - Testimony 417
Item
Title
Zaporizhzhia - Testimony 417
Description
A widow's attempt to memorialize her husband in translated language echoes the Holocaust's "incomplete witnesses." Her attempt to express pain in a foreign tongue creates what Davies refers to as "a genre of crisis." The testimony alternates between memory and translation, as grief attempts to discover words that do not yet exist in English. Each sentence reads like a quest for fidelity—not just to language, but to love buried under the weight of war.
Coverage
Zaporizhzhia region
Date
2022-06-14
Identifier
417
Publisher
Narratives of War Testimony Project
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
