We will have the thankless task of proving to a world which will refuse to listen, that we are Abel, the murdered brother.
– Ignasy Shiper (historian, killed at Majdanek in 1943)
In his acclaimed book Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi recounts a recurring dream he and other inmates had in the Nazi death camp: that he returned home to his family and told them about it, but nobody listened. “The person standing in front of me doesn’t stay to hear, turns around and goes away,” he writes.