Days and Memory
Published on 14. November 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
122 pages
978-0-8101-6090-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Auschwitz, memory meant life: remembering the humanity extinguished by the death camps and hoping to survive to tell what had been endured. Charlotte Delbo, a non-Jew sent to Auschwitz for being a member of the French resistance movement, recalls the poems, vignettes, and meditations that fed her companions' spirits, interweaving her experiences with the sufferings of others and depicting dignity and decency in the face of inhumanity.
Reviews / Votes
""A collection of moving, chiseled prose narratives."" --Kirkus Reviews|""Delbo's book ranks among the best of the literature of the Holocaust."" --Booklist
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
525 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-6090-3 (9780810160903)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Charlotte Delbo was traveling in South America when she learned of the fall of France to the Nazis. Upon returning home, she and her husband were imprisoned by the Gestapo. After the murder of her husband, Delbo was held for nine months before being deported to Auschwitz in January 1943. She was in her seventies when she died in 1985. Days and Memory, published posthumously, appeared as La memoire et les jours later that same year.
Content
Preface by Rosette Lamont
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X: Tomb of the Dictator
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XIII: Warsaw
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XVIII: The Madwomen of May
XVIV: Kalavrita of the Thousand Antigones
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VIII
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X: Tomb of the Dictator
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XIII: Warsaw
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII: The Madwomen of May
XVIV: Kalavrita of the Thousand Antigones
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