1. Didi-Huberman discusses the Holocaust as an event beyond human interpretation or imagination; the destruction was something entirely incomprehensible to us beyond statistics and death tolls.

2. The sublime, according to Lyotard, is "when the imagination fails to present an object which might, if only in principle, come to match a concept" (What is Postmodernism?, p. 78). He goes on to say that "[ideas about the sublime] impart no knowledge about reality..." (78).

Does this mean that (a) the Holocaust was a sublime event? and (b) that it cannot be considered reality or history from which we can learn?