Write a Defiant Letter to the Turkish Sultan Fragment from Ilia Repin (1844-1930), oil, 1880-1891. As of 07-Feb-2004, all substantive replies (but no vacuous form-letter replies) from the recipients of my letters have been posted on the Ukrainian Archive. Where the reader does not see any reply, it is because there has been none. Of all recipients listed, the only one who has ever sent a substantive reply has been Raul Hilberg. Therefore, the value of these many letters for the most part lies not in the answers that they elicit, but rather in their creation of a public record for others to appreciate of what questions have been asked without receiving any answer, and thus perhaps of what questions bear asking a second time. |