in the morning you crave death Only to fear it by evening? "Horror cannot be circumscribed," she concludes, and throughout the trilogy she regularly expresses doubt as to whether she can truly tell the reader what it was like, whether anyone can. You don't believe what we say because if what we say were true we wouldn't be here to say it. we'd have to explain the inexplicable "I am not sure that what I wrote is true," she wrote in the epigraph to the first volume, "I am certain that it is truthful." Resolving those two statements makes reading Auschwitz and After an advanced reading experience that more are slowly discovering. Editions (1995) Auschwitz and After. Yale University Press. References Personal accounts of the Holocaust