Always, Darkness Visible

1. The author of the piece is written by Aharon Appelfeld, an Israeli novelist and Holocaust

survivor. At a young age he was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during World

War II. He escaped to Ukraine and later joined the Soviet army following the war in

Palestine. His began his education at Hebrew University, and is now a professor of

Hebrew Literature at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He writes novels, short stories

and essays and his work has been translated to a number of languages. Appelfeld work is

recognized worldwide as among the most profound literary explorations of the Holocaust,

and has met with international critical and popular acclaim.

2. The meaning behind Always, Darkness Visible is about seeing the real truth behind the

dark bruity of the Germans. The penal colony Auschwitz did not commedem the Jews

beliefs, especially in any higher power. In the Holocaust, biology determined a person's

fate and many Jews suffered prosecution. Observant Jews, liberal Jews, communist Jews

and Jews were all crammed into camps for their one and only offense: the Jewish blood

in their veins. Such envy and hatred mobilized the darkest dark of the soul. To imagine

such darkness apparently needs a new language.

3. The historical context with the following text dates back to World War II within the

1940’s. This piece is written by a man who was in the Nazi concentration camp and

experienced firsthand the unseen brulity. During the period of the Holocaust there was no

place for thought or feeling. The needs of the hungry and thirsty were deprived of their

body’s caloric needs. The Holocaust stretched over six long years. Those were years
 when every minute, every second, was faced with pain and fear, in the midst of hunger

and humiliation.

4. The intended audience for this text is directed to every generation that encounters one of

the most uncivil war in history. What had happened in World War II will always be

memorable for the numerous lives destroyed. The 45-60 million people killed were 6

million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical

solution. The Holocaust provides one of the most effective subjects for examining basic

moral issues concerning human behavior. The tragedy was not an accident in history, but

occurred because individuals, organizations, and governments made choices that not only

legalized discrimination but also allowed prejudice, hatred, and ultimately mass murder

to occur​.

5. The main argument given is allowing yourself to know what to hold onto in order

to live a meaningful life. Simply by knowing what's important, as it was for many Jews,

their faith was their life’s saving grace. There was no doubt they wanted to get to a place

where they could leave their past and assertively connect with the culture of their

forefathers, to the language of the Bible. The land of Jerusalem that gave birth to their

Bible that guides them through meaning. Even when we don’t see God when we expect

him, we have no choice but to do what he taught us to do. As people of faith we will

protect the weak, we will love, we will comfort. From now on, the responsibility is all

ours to overcome the obligatory that should define our meaning in this life.

The body, we learned in the camps, is liable to lose its divine qualities. That too

was part of the wickedness of the murderer: not only to murder, but first to take away
their will and faith. Treating the Jews into a despicable body whose soul fleds, and only

then to be murdered. However, every barrier inevitably separates you from the most

meaningful experience of your life, and without that experience, hard as it may be, you

are doubly defective. If an individual may speak for the many, that the six years of war

were years of a severe trial. As I believe will result again when the Antichrist has

governmental control through the soon to be mandatory RFID chip. And in this difficult

time, there will be people who stand down because they have given up hope, would

rather not suffer, or don’t believe in any God. At some point in this lifetime, the Jews will

experience this brulity again in another war, because they are Jesus people, but little does

the Antichrist know, Jesus will claim victory everytime.