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Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp
Two of my grandparents were Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to Australia as displaced people, refugees or stateless – in the words they chose to use in their landing documents and naturalisation applications.
I thus find myself drawn to thinking about Behrouz Boochani’s project of writing the histories of Manus Prison as being part of the same project of history-writing as the writing about the ghettos, camps and bureaucracies of violence that made up the Holocaust.
- Jordana Silverstein
- The Conversation
This is not to say that the two “events” are the same, but that our understanding of …