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Landscapes of the metropolis of death : reflections on memory and imagination / by Otto Dov Kulka ; translated by Ralph Mandel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kulka, Otto Dov.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Kulka, Otto Dov.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp).
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Czech.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Czech.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Allen Lane, 2013.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Contents:
- 1. A prologue that could also be an epilogue
- 2. Between Theresienstadt and Auschwitz
- 3. The final liquidation of the 'family camp'
- Autumn 1944: Auschwitz, ghostly metropolis
- 5. Observations and perplexities about scenes in the memory
- 6. Three poems from the brink of the gas chambers
- 7. Journey to the satellite city of the metropolis of death
- 8. Landscapes of a private mythology
- 9. Rivers which cannot be crossed and the 'Gate of the Law'
- 10. In search of history and memory : three chapters from the diaries
- 11. Dream: Jewish Prague and the great death
- 12. Doctor Mengele frozen in time
- 13. God's grieving .
- ISBN:
- 9781846146831
- 1846146836
- 9780718197018
- 0718197011
- OCLC:
- 810949981
- Publisher Number:
- 99952435060
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