Levitsky Holli
Jewish Studies Department, Los Angeles, CA 90035, USA.
Med Law. 2013 Jun;32(2):191-203.
In this paper, I will examine several stories written by Holocaust survivor Sara Nomberg-Przytyk. Taken from her autobiographical collection, Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land (1967),"The Price of Life", "The Dance of the Rabbis," and "The Verdict" are three of forty short narratives the Polish Jewish writer compiled as literary testimony of her experience. During her time in Auschwitz, Nomberg-Przytyk held the comparatively fortunate position of infirmary worker, a position she earned by her pre-War leadership in the underground Polish Communist party. In these stories and others in the collection, she examines the daily ethical dilemmas faced by those working on the front lines of the Auchswitz death-and duplicity machine. As witnesses, they saw death in all forms, including mass piles of corpses, and in places that were devised to be duplicitous, such as the infamous "showers" that were actually gas chambers. They felt death in the human ashes that rose up from the crematoria and floated over their bodies as they navigated through their days and nights in the camp. As a witness to this landscape of death, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk offers us an opportunity to examine the nearly impossible notion of choice and human dignity within the concentrationary universe of Auschwitz. Through these stories, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk teaches us about Jewish ethics in the face of Auschwitz.
在本文中，我将审视大屠杀幸存者萨拉·诺姆贝格 - 普日蒂克所写的几个故事。《生命的代价》《拉比们的舞蹈》和《裁决》取自她的自传文集《奥斯维辛：怪诞之地的真实故事》（1967年），是这位波兰犹太作家汇编的四十篇短篇叙事中的三篇，作为她经历的文学见证。在奥斯维辛集中营期间，诺姆贝格 - 普日蒂克担任医务室工作人员这一相对幸运的职位，这一职位是她战前在波兰地下共产党的领导工作为她赢得的。在这些故事以及文集中的其他故事里，她审视了那些在奥斯维辛死亡与欺诈机器前线工作的人们每天面临的道德困境。作为见证者，他们目睹了各种形式的死亡，包括堆积如山的尸体，以及在诸如臭名昭著的实际上是毒气室的“淋浴间”这类充满欺诈的地方。他们在从火葬场升起并在集中营的日夜中飘过他们身体的人类骨灰中感受到了死亡。作为这片死亡景象的见证者，萨拉·诺姆贝格 - 普日蒂克为我们提供了一个机会，去审视在奥斯维辛集中营这个环境中几乎不可能存在的选择和人类尊严的概念。通过这些故事，萨拉·诺姆贝格 - 普日蒂克向我们传授了面对奥斯维辛时的犹太伦理。
