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The final station : Umschlagplatz
- Title
- The final station : Umschlagplatz / Jarosław M. Rymkiewicz ; translated by Nina Taylor.
- Author
- Rymkiewicz, Jarosław Marek.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DS135.P62 W3363 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 327 pages : maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- The Final Station records Jaroslaw Rymkiewicz's obsession, as a Christian Pole, with the extermination of the Jews during World War II before the eyes of the Poles and, often, with their collaboration. Rymkiewicz places the Umschlagplatz - the area of the Warsaw ghetto where Jews were gathered for deportation as part of the final solution - at the center of his narrative, because "it happened right here, in the midst of our lives.".
- Juxtaposing the past and the present, the personal and the historical, The Final Station includes a reconstruction of the minutest details of genocide (very much like Claude Lanzmann's Shoah) and a fictional account of an I. B. Singer-like summer at a resort near Warsaw where a group of Jewish and Christian friends meet shortly before the war for a last season of tennis, debating, and romance.
- In this relentlessly probing narrative, Rymkiewicz examines for the first time in all its complexity the Poles' relationship to the Holocaust.
- Uniform Title
- Umschlagplatz. English
- Alternative Title
- Umschlagplatz.
- Subjects
- Note
- Translation of: Umschlagplatz.
- ISBN
- 0374154953 :
- LCCN
- 93039631
- OCLC
- 29024266
- ocm29024266
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries