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Title

Landscapes of the metropolis of death : reflections on memory and imagination / Otto Dov Kulka ; translated by Ralph Mandel.

Author

Kulka, Otto Dov,

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Description

127 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

The historian reveals his experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz, presenting a personal and historical account of life at the camp and of the private mythology he constructed to understand his past.

Subject

• Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
• Kulka, Otto Dov
• Memory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• "Text originally written in Hebrew and translated by Ralph Mandel, except 'Ghetto in an annihilation camp', which was first presented in English at the Fourth Yad Vashem International History Conference"--Publisher's note.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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

• 9780674072893 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0674072898 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012041721

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library