Writing in Witness : A Holocaust Reader / editor, Eric J. Sundquist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sundquist, Eric J., editor.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors--Anecdotes.

Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust survivors--Diaries.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : State University of New York Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Writing in Witness is a broad survey of the most important writing about the Holocaust produced by eyewitnesses at the time and soon after. Whether they intended to spark resistance and undermine Nazi authority, to comfort family and community, to beseech God, or to leave a memorial record for posterity, the writers reflect on the power and limitations of the written word in the face of events often thought to be beyond representation. The diaries, journals, letters, poems, and other works were created across a geography reaching from the Baltics to the Balkans, from the Atlantic coast to the heart of the Soviet Union, and in a wide array of original languages. Along with the readings, Eric J. Sundquist's introductions provide a comprehensive account of the Holocaust as a historical event. Including works by prominent authors such as Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel as well as those little known or anonymous, Writing in Witness provides, in vital and memorable examples, a wide-ranging account of the Holocaust by those who felt the imperative to give written testimony"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Prisoners: A Prologue. Victor Klemperer, The Yellow Star

Jean Améry, Torture

Anonymous Warsaw Man, A Warsaw Jew Writes to His Gentile Friend

Yehoshua Moshe Aaronson, The Scroll of the House of Bondage

Hilda Dajc, Letters from a Concentration Camp in Serbia

Odd Nansen, A Decent Man

Yitzhak Katzenelson, Vittel Prison Diary

Ella Lingens-Reiner, Prisoners of Fear

Abraham Levite, For an Auschwitz Anthology

In the Ghetto. Yankev Glatshteyn (Jacob Glatstein), Good Night, World

Samuel Golfard, "One must write with blood"

Avraham Tory, Kovno Diary-Roundup and Murders at the Ninth Fort

Herman Kruk, Vilna Diary-Eyewitness to Murder at Ponary

Abraham Sutzkever, Three Poems from the Vilna Ghetto

Oskar Rosenfeld, Starvation in the Ghetto

Simkhe Bunem Shayevitsh, Lekh-Lekho

Anonymous Lódz Boy, "To ease my bitter heart"

Emanuel Ringelblum, "Why is the world silent?"

Chaim A. Kaplan, Scroll of Agony

Gusta Davidson Draenger, Resistance in Kraków

The Final Solution. Lidia Maximovna Slipchenko, Mass Murder in Odessa

Piotr Rawicz, Blood from the Sky

Hermann Friedrich Graebe, Massacre, Resistance, and Rescue

Philip Mechanicus, "Inside the belly of the venomous snake" : Transports from Westerbork

Alexander Donat, "Hell has no bottom" : Majdanek

Kurt Gerstein, Witness at Belzec

Seweryna Szmaglewska, Slave Labor and Death in Birkenau

Primo Levi, "The saved and the drowned" : The Prominents and the Muselmänner

Abraham Krzepicki, Transport to Treblinka

Rachel Auerbach, The Road to Heaven

Oskar Strawczynski, The Treblinka Orchestra

Paul Celan, Death Fugue

The Gray Zone. Chaim Rumkowski, "Give me your children"

Josef Zelkowicz, "The heart of a slaughterer" : The Jewish Police at Work

Calel Perechodnik, Am I a Murderer?

Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, The Block of Death

Gisella Perl, Childbirth in Auschwitz-Birkenau

Szlama Winer, Inside the Chelmno Death Camp

Zalmen Gradowski, "In the deep sea of corpses": The Czech Transport

Holy Days. Shimon Huberband, Kiddush Hashem

David Kahane, "How shall we sing the Lord's song?"

Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira, "Love God with all your heart" : The Lesson of Rabbi Akiva

Zelig Kalmanovitch, "What is a Jew and who is a Jew?"

Etty Hillesum, "The thinking heart of a whole concentration camp"

Anonymous Warsaw Poet, And I Will Impart My Revenge upon Edom

Abel J. Herzberg, Jewish Faith, Jewish Unity

Survivors. Hanna Lévy-Hass, Last Days of Bergen-Belsen

Robert Antelme, Death March through Germany

Jorge Semprún, "But can the story be told?"

Charlotte Delbo, The Stream

Yekhiel Kirshnbaum, The City without Jews

Elie Wiesel, Why I Write

Ruth Klüger, Still Alive

Aharon Appelfeld, The Awakening.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438470337

1438470339

OCLC:

1041938043