#ReadAndSee: #AlesAdamovichAndLiteratureOutOfFire, #essay on the source material for #ComeAndSee.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7006-read-and-see-ales-adamovich-and-literature-out-of-fire

"Humaneness, as the stories in these books clearly show, is a quality not inherent in human beings."

#ComeAndSee: #OrphansOfTheStorm
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7003-come-and-see-orphans-of-the-storm

"Soviets...murdered 22,000 captured Polish army officers...1940"

"In...Belorussia...1 in 4...perished. 628 villages were... razed...inhabitants massacred."

"Nazi collaborators...are identified as...Ukrainians."

Read and See: Ales Adamovich and Literature out of Fire

In postwar Belarus, where documents were either inaccessible or had been destroyed, the cowriter of Come and See pioneered a new form of literature sourced from the nightmarish testimonies of survivors.

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