Narrating loss in Poland 70 years after the Holocaust

What do stories of loss sound like 70 years after the Holocaust and how are they remembered in the places where the losses themselves occurred? When Steven Hopman returned to Poland in 2010, as part of the March of the Living’s (MOL) Montreal contingent of survivors tasked with educating students about the Holocaust, he grappled with how best to narrate a coherent and shareable story. This article shares his struggle to go public with the ‘salvaged remnants’ of his experiences while detailing the strategies he employed to describe what was beyond loss and could not be shared.