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Feb. 18, 2021
In his monumental 1932 novel “Journey to the End of the Night,” the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline wrote that the truly most important things happen undercover. “There is no doubt of this. We know nothing about a person’s real story.”
Ofer Aderet, Haaretz’s history correspondent, thinks he is capable of explaining to us, uninformed readers, the true story of a man, even a difficult and complex story such as the one that took place in Nazi-occupied Poland. Aderet claims that I’m not an expert in Chinese philosophy after I wrote that the murder and saving of Jews in Poland are two intertwined phenomena that characterized the reality created by the German occupation. Indeed, I’m no expert in Chinese philosophy, but I am one on the history of the Holocaust.