After enduring what was probably the worst year of my life, which included getting laid off, after a long and tedious attempt at starting a professional career, losing a family member to stomach cancer, surviving a car accident which left me broken, and having the love of my life slip through my fingers, I felt like I had nothing left. Both mentally and emotionally exhausted from all of this, as well as tired of 'playing by the rules' and getting nowhere, a pilgrimage to South America seemed like a good alternative. This writing was the exact journal I kept. The people I met, the places I...

Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era shifts focus from discussions on the ethics and limits of representation to the relevance of imagination in Holocaust commemoration. It re-examines ethical, aesthetic and political dilemmas arising from the crucial transfer of memory from the realm of 'living memory' contained by the survivors and their families, to culturally and politically mediated memory practices realised by post-witness generations. Why are artistic imaginative representations of the Holocaust important now? Critical analyses of little discussed artworks,...