Listening activity: Imre Kertesz Interview

1) The united state's artist tried to represent with the 2000 stone blocks the vulnerability of the jewish community surrounded by the unstoppable nazi party in the concentration camp. Every stone obstructs the visión of the person that passes through them so you can feel somehow the lonelyness of the jewish people in the German camps.

2) Imre says that the country that once took him off his family, harassed him for years , now is better and comfortant (in a freedom sense) tan where he lived before the camps.

3)There is neraly no difference between the past and present of the antisemitism. In the past, they wanted to eliminate the jews and any other culture that differed from the arian. Now days, the antisemitism wants a second Holocaus.

4)They help us to comprehend and understand the deeds of the human race in controvertial scenarios, and the biggest benefit and what makes us much richer is the fact that they help us to avoid the mistakes of our ancestors.

5) The real meaning of the metaphor is that while the people read the book they create in their minds a scene of the Holocaust and with the words "it knocks from inside" he means that we are unable to avoid thinking and creating conscious of what has been done in that time even if we try to block those feelings.