Analysis Of Janina Struk s Book, Very Well Indicates The...

The title of Janina Struk’s book, very well indicates the general idea of what is meant to be discussed. Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence, contains various views on what pictures taken during, before and after the Holocaust, were meant for. I found the book quite informative; it showed me the relations between the photographs taken before, during or after the Holocaust, and the people associated with those pictures. At the same time, this book had it’s low points where I struggled to stay focused, because some parts were rather dry. Although, it’s understandable that this book is not necessarily meant to entertain, but to get a message across to the readers. In this book, Janina Struk is aiming to answer the question whether or not pictures taken of the Holocaust can provide solid evidence for the atrocities and if they can bring out the truth of the matter. By looking at the different ways of how pictures were being used to help make sense of the events of the Holocaust, Struk’s look on things is that, although photographs can provide evidence, everyone can interpret them in all kinds of ways. Therefore pictures cannot hold as concrete proof, and Struk claims that people should also be cautious when choosing what to do with a Holocaust photograph. The author chooses to close off the book by leaving readers to ponder over the idea that pictures can hold so many different particles of information, so what do they all mean, and how are those