Another issue is the question of language. All too often, members of Polonia, especially first-generation Americans, write important books in Polish, and publish them in obscure publishing houses. Such books are guaranteed to sink into oblivion. The only way to reach the American public is to write books in English, to run periodicals in English and to finance them generously. One of the reasons why I painted these pictures is that it is harder to misunderstand pictures than the written text.
Different people interpret the written word differently.
But most everyone can relate to pictures and come to similar conclusions about them. Also, many people look at pictures but few people read books. Another issue is that books on Auschwitz published so far tend to be repetitive. Most prisoners did not know much about the camp, and they basically wrote their own histories. The totality of the camp eluded them.