The Muselmänner remain sites of memory despite leaving no trace

Evidence

Various testimonies about the “Muslims” were compellingly reproduced and discussed in Agamben’s Remnants of Auschwitz, which draws on the research of two Polish sociologists, Zdislaw Ryn and Stanislaw Klodzinski. Vivid as they are, the testimonies gathered appear to inscribe hardly more than the Muslims’ disappearance. Yet, although forgotten and forgettable, leaving no trace in anyone’s memory, as Levi puts it, on the far side of the human, they remain sites of memory. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 698

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