| Description |
689 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Fiction: The key game ; A spring morning / Ida Fink -- Bread / Isaiah Spiegel -- The last morning / Bernard Gotfryd -- The verdict ; Friendly meetings / Sara Nomberg-Przytyk -- Tzili / Aharon Appelfeld -- This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski -- Infinity / Arnost Lustig -- Lieutenant Boulanger / Alexander Kluge -- Resurrection / Jakov Lind -- Season of the dead / Pierre Gascar -- Drama: Ghetto / Joshua Sobol -- Poems by: Abraham Sutzkever -- Dan Pagis -- Paul Celan -- Miklos Radnóti -- Nelly Sachs -- Jacob Glatstein. The affair of the painters of Terezin / Leo Haas -- Painters of Terezin : Leo Haas, Karel Fleischmann, Peter Kien, Fritta (Fritz Taussig) |
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The way it was: One year in Treblinka / Jankiel Wiernik -- 'Their soldierly conduct is exemplary': Kulmhof (Chelmno) extermination camp in the Wartheland Reichsgau -- But Lidice is in Europe! / Frantisek R. Kraus -- Conversations with a dead man / Jacques Furmanski -- Voices / Charlotte Delbo -- One day in Jozefow: Initiation to mass murder / Christopher R. Browning -- Shame / Primo Levi -- Torture / Jean Amery -- A plea for the dead / Elie Wiesel -- Journals and diaries: Diary of the great deportation / Abraham Lewin -- Days of nightmare / Josef Zelkowicz -- Memoir / Avraham Tory |
| Summary |
Prose, poetry, and plays on life in German concentration camps during World War II. The collection includes works by writers who were themselves prisoners. With illustrations |
| Analysis |
Literature Special subjects Racism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Literary collections.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
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| Author |
Langer, Lawrence L.
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| LC no. |
94011446 |
| ISBN |
0195075595 (alk. paper) |
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0195077326 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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