'I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words'

Herta Muller 

 

 

 

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speaking/ silence: clue derived from the story of Mrs. Halina Elczewska who for many years after war was silent before started her relation (no story) of time spent in the Lodz getto

 

dollhouses - created by children in the department of paper; made with great precision; construction of small and intimate worlds, which left the ghetto, to fall into the hands of free children 

 

ritual burial - process determined by strict rules: the physical and ritual washing, dressing corpses in a specially prepared robes, wrapping in a sheet, submitting to a wooden crate, singing psalms, transfer the body to the burial part of the cemetery, Kaddish

 

exhibitions of departments - aimed at presenting the production of a particular workplace; large art value had particularly those arising in the sewing departments; ghetto’s pride