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- Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader
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- 2018
- Published by: State University of New York Press
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A comprehensive survey of the most important writing to come out of the Holocaust.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xxviii
- A Note on Sources and the Text
- pp. xxix-xxx
- Prisoners: A Prologue
- pp. 1-8
- Jean Améry, Torture
- pp. 14-19
- Odd Nansen, A Decent Man
- pp. 36-40
- In the Ghetto
- pp. 61-70
- Oskar Rosenfeld, Starvation in the Ghetto
- pp. 103-108
- Simkhe Bunem Shayevitsh, Lekh-Lekho
- pp. 109-121
- Chaim A. Kaplan, Scroll of Agony
- pp. 134-141
- The Final Solution
- pp. 153-162
- Piotr Rawicz, Blood from the Sky
- pp. 169-176
- Kurt Gerstein, Witness at Belzec
- pp. 196-203
- Abraham Krzepicki, Transport to Treblinka
- pp. 219-229
- Rachel Auerbach, The Road to Heaven
- pp. 229-236
- Oskar Strawczynski, The Treblinka Orchestra
- pp. 236-241
- Paul Celan, Death Fugue
- pp. 242-244
- The Gray Zone
- pp. 245-254
- Chaim Rumkowski, “Give me your children”
- pp. 254-258
- Calel Perechodnik, Am I a Murderer?
- pp. 266-272
- Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, The Block of Death
- pp. 272-278
- Szlama Winer, Inside the Chelmno Death Camp
- pp. 283-291
- Shimon Huberband, Kiddush Hashem
- pp. 310-316
- Abel J. Herzberg, Jewish Faith, Jewish Unity
- pp. 345-350
- Hanna Lévy-Hass, Last Days of Bergen-Belsen
- pp. 358-364
- Robert Antelme, Death March through Germany
- pp. 364-371
- Jorge Semprún, “But can the story be told?”
- pp. 372-378
- Charlotte Delbo, The Stream
- pp. 378-386
- Yekhiel Kirshnbaum, The City without Jews
- pp. 386-392
- Elie Wiesel, Why I Write
- pp. 392-398
- Ruth Klüger, Still Alive
- pp. 399-405
- Aharon Appelfeld, The Awakening
- pp. 405-410
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 443-448
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ISBN
9781438470337
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OCLC
1041938043
Pages
450
Launched on MUSE
2018-08-07
Language
English
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No
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