ABSTRACT

On 15 April 1945, CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow spoke from Buchenwald, “I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words” (quoted in Wachsmann, 2015, p. 17). Murrow was voicing the unspeakable, and unthinkable, experience of being touched by evil – an experience so extreme that it destroys our ability to symbolize and to think, to put what has shattered the limits of our world into words. The space between what can be imagined and what can be actualized collapses; anything is possible under the blinded eyes of God.