JOURNEY WITHOUT END

In her review of “The Journey” by Ida Fink Sept. 27, Daphne Merkin asks a pointed question about the Holocaust: “Is there anything left to be said that has not been said?”

After doing considerable research for a story about Auschwitz, I never found any first-person accounts of the experience of the Nazis and soldiers who actually worked in the camps.

There is much hand-wringing about how what happened in Europe 50 years ago must never happen again but, as far as I know, a personal understanding of how the administrators and soldiers ended up in those camps--how they did the things they did; how they felt about it later--does not really exist.

RICH SANDFORD, LOS ANGELES