Translation is everywhere — that’s is the crux of a new book by Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche: Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms our World.
From NASA to the U.N. to Chinese tattoo parlors, the book looks high and low for stories of the undeniable importance of language. One of those stories centers on a man named Peter Less, 91, an inspiration of sorts to interpreters and translators everywhere.
“He was a survivor of the holocaust and all of his family members — his parents, his siblings, his grandmother — were killed in Auschwitz,” Kelly tells Jacki Lyden, guest host of weekends on All Things Considered. “And he went on to become an interpreter for the Nuremberg trials, which is where the Nazi war criminals were tried, and he was the voice of the masterminds of the Holocaust.”
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