Levin, Adam2022-11-102022-11-102021Adam Levin (2021) Breaking silences in the Aftermath of Holocaust trauma in Elie Wiesel’s Day, Holocaust Studies, 27:3, 351-370, DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2020.1744889.1750-4902 (print)2048-4887 (online)10.1080/17504902.2020.1744889https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/88240This article employs a close reading of Elie Wiesel’s third novel, Day (1961), as a lens through which to explore the difficulties inherent in disengaging from the Holocaust past and their impact on the Holocaust survivor’s efforts to live in the present. In particular, The article explores how the novel’s narrative employs silence, a key Wieselian symbol, in constructing its overarching framework. These textual silences, I suggest, portray the text’s protagonist’s inability to escape his past at the camps. It is only through transforming these silences into speech that he is able to truly begin to live in the present.en© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an electronic version of an article published in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 351-370, 2021, doi : 10.1080/17504902.2020.1744889. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History is available online at : https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rhos20.Elie Wiesel’s DaySilenceHolocaust traumaPostprint Article