Auschwitz and after

Description:

In March 1942, French police arrested Charlotte Delbo and her husband, the resistance leader Georges Dudach, on a charge of distributing anti-German leaflets in Paris. The French turned them over to the Gestapo, who imprisoned them. Dudach was executed by firing squad in May; Delbo remained in prison until January 1943, when she was deported to Auschwitz and then to Ravensbruck, where she remained until the end of the war. This book - Delbo's profoundly moving vignettes, poems, and prose poems of life in the concentration camps and afterward - is a memoir of great literary value. It is a unique document by a female resistance leader, a non-Jew, and a remarkable writer who transforms the experience of the Holocaust into spare, austere, yet lyric prose.

subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp),  Biography,  French Personal narratives,  Personal narratives, French,  Political prisoners,  World War, 1939-1945,  World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, french,  Political prisoners, france,  World war, 1939-1945, underground movements, france,  18.25 French literature,  89.21 fascism,  15.70 history of Europe,  Judenvernichtung,  Schreiben nach Auschwitz,  Concentratiekampen,  Personal narratives,  Political prisioners,  Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)

People: Charlotte Delbo

Places: France