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The Circles of Hell of the Holocaust. Is a metaphor for „Dante’s hell” adequate in relations to the Shoah?
Aleksandra Stachula
Abstract
The experience of the Holocaust is hard to express in the present, free world by people who have never experienced life in the ghetto or in the concentration camp. The best way to make the experiences of the extermination period is reference to the tradition shaped by the symbolism of hell. The metaphor of “The Dante’s hell”, ho-wever, seems to be too narrow in relation to the victims of the Holocaust. Neverthe-less, the use of the hell metaphor in relation to the experience of the Holocaust is mo-tivated. By delving into what is common to humanity becomes more likely, though not quite possible, to understand the experience of the Shoah.
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holocaust, extermination, Jews, concentration camp, ghetto, metaphor, Dante, hellDetails
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