Landscapes of the metropolis of death : reflections on memory and imagination /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kulka, Otto Dov (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:"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.
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Edition:First Harvard University Press edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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 senes 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.