689, [5] pages : 25 cm

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

Includes index

On writing and reading Holocaust literature -- I. The way it was -- 1. One year in Treblinka / Jankiel Wiernik -- 2. 'Their soldierly conduct is exemplary': Kulmhof (Chelmno) extermination camp in the Wartheland Reichsgau -- 3. But Lidice is in Europe! / František R. Kraus -- 4. Conversations with a dead man / Jacques Furmanski -- 5. Voices / Charlotte Delbo -- 6. One day in Józefów: initiation to mass murder / Christopher R. Browning -- 7. Shame / Primo Levi -- 8. Torture / Jean Améry -- 9. A plea for the dead / Elie Wiesel -- II. Journals and diaries -- 10. Diary of the great deportation / Abraham Lewin -- 11. Days of nightmare / Josef Zelkowicz -- 12. Memoir / Avraham Tory -- III. Fiction -- 13. The key game ; A spring morning / Ida Fink -- 14. Bread / Isaiah Spiegel -- 15. The last morning / Bernard Gotfryd -- 16. The verdict ; Friendly meetings / Sara Nomberg-Przytyk -- 17. Tzili / Aharon Appelfeld -- 18. This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski -- 19. Infinity / Arnošt Lustig -- 20. The crystal stream / Adolf Rudnicki -- 21. Lieutenant Boulanger / Alexander Kluge -- 22. Resurrection / Jakov Lind -- 23. The season of the dead / Pierre Gascar -- IV. Drama -- 24. Ghetto / Joshua Sobol -- V. Poems -- 25. Abraham Sutzkever -- 26. Dan Pagis -- 27. Paul Celan -- 28. Miklos Radnóti -- 29. Nelly Sachs -- 30. Jacob Glatstein -- VI. Painters of Terezín -- 31. The affair of the painters of Terezín / Leo Haas -- 32. Painters of Terezin : Leo Haas, Karel Fleischmann, Peter Kien, Fritta (Fritz Taussig)

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