Inga Clendinnen bravely faced the events, motives and people of the Holocaust.
In “Beginnings” the first chapter of Reading the Holocaust 1998, she wrote:
“I want to dispel the ‘Gorgon effect’—the sickening of imagination and curiosity and the draining of the will which afflicts so many of us when we try to look squarely at the persons and processes impli…
