Lawrence Langer’s Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit is one of the most brilliant books on the Holocaust I have ever read. Langer tackles the meaning of survivorship in the death camps, using language as a lens to examine the experience of atrocity and annihilation and those that did and did not survive. Langer divides his book into four sections: Language as Refuge; Auschwitz: The Death of Choice; Elie Wiesel: Divided Voice in a Divided Universe; and Gertrud Kolmer and Nelly Sachs: […]