O testemunho em "O Sobrevivente": memória de um infante que escapou de Auschwitz

Abstract

We present in this text an analysis of the work O Sobrevivente: memórias de um brasileiro que escapou de Auschwitz, published in 2000, in a partnership between Aleksander Laks and Tova Sender. It deals with the testimony of Laks as a PolishJewish boy, who experienced in his adolescence the daily traumas of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Survival and its relationship of gratitude to Brazil and its identification as Brazilian. His narrative testifies to one of the greatest atrocities suffered by his people during the Shoah in World War II. We try to verify how the exception and the naked life present themselves and dialogue in the narrative reverberating their survival. Nazism no doubt reminds us of the torture and suffering of a people who were penalized, for Auschwitz was not only a concentration camp, it was also a field of forced labor, humiliation, suffering and extermination. From this perspective, we will use Giorgio Agamben ideas based on the state of Exception and nude life as a key reading, concepts considered important for understanding and reflecting on a period in which fundamental rights have been suspended and their memory will always be a challenge, especially when it comes to infants