English, a primary language of neither the persecutors nor the victims, has generally been viewed as marginal to the events of the Holocaust. Rosen argues that this marginal status profoundly affects writing on the Holocaust in English and fundamentally shapes our understanding of the events. Each chapter highlights a representative work from a different genre - psychology, sociology, memoir, tales, fiction and film - and examines the special position of English with regard to the Holocaust, supported by references to the role of other languages including Hebrew, Yiddish and German