ABSTRACT
In her remarkable autobiographical trilogy Auschwitz and After, the French writer Charlotte Delbo insists that “Il faut donner à voir”: Not one must see, but rather one must “give to see” or, more precisely, seeing must be given, revealed, enabled. Her imperative foregrounds the difficulty of the task of confronting atrocity. Regarding the Holocaust, seeing is not as simple as it looks. Effort, ingenuity, and care are called for if we are not to fall victim to photographs of degrading death.
