Publication

1995 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

88,500 words, Guess

Page Count

354 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing188418

Classifications

  • DDC940.53/174386
  • LCCD805.P7 D41613 1995

Description

In March 1942, French police arrested Charlotte Delbo and her husband, the resistance leader Georges Dudach, on a charge of distributing anti-German leaflets in Paris. The French turned them over to the Gestapo, who imprisoned them. Dudach was executed by firing squad in May; Delbo remained in prison until January 1943, when she was deported to Auschwitz and then to Ravensbruck, where she remained until the end of the war. This book - Delbo's profoundly moving vignettes, poems, and prose poems of life in the concentration camps and afterward - is a memoir of great literary value. It is a unique document by a female resistance leader, a non-Jew, and a remarkable writer who transforms the experience of the Holocaust into spare, austere, yet lyric prose.

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