The article looks at Iossif Ventura’s collected edition of “Tanaïs” and “Kyklonio” (two poems commemorating the death by drowning of almost the entire Jewish community of Crete in 1944, published in English in 2015), exploring the themes of memory, trauma, and guilt, while linking the poems’ haunting underwater imagery with current concerns about the deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean. Drawing connections between Ventura, Jason deCaires Taylor’s underwater statues, and Marie Jalowicz Simon’s book about survival in Nazi Germany, Gone to Ground, the essay considers the psychological ramifications of precarious sea crossings aiming at escape and freedom.

本文着眼于Iossif Ventura收集的“Tanaïs”和“ Kyklonio”两本书（两首因淹死克里特岛整个犹太社区而纪念死亡的诗，于2015年以英文发表），探讨了记忆，创伤，和罪恶感，同时将这首诗令人难以忘怀的水下图像与当前对地中海难民死亡的担忧联系在一起。文章将文图拉，杰森·德卡尔斯·泰勒（Jason deCaires Taylor）的水下雕像与玛丽·贾洛维兹·西蒙（Marie Jalowicz Simon）关于纳粹德国生存的书《走到地面》之间的联系联系起来，该论文考虑了旨在逃生和自由的不稳定海道的心理影响。