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Dymy Nad Birkenau
''Smoke over Birkenau'' () is a 1945 Autobiography, autobiographical book by Polish writer Seweryna Szmaglewska, based on her experiences as an inmate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. It was one of the first works on this topic, and it became highly influential in shaping the public's knowledege of this topic. Due to its literary and factual values, it was considered an outstanding achievement of . Translations The book received numerous editions in Polish. The book was translated and published in English already in 1945. It was also translated to several other languages, including Czech (1947), Ukrainian (1990), Spanish (2006) and German (2020). As of 2009, the book had at least 18 editions in Polish, and has been translated into at least 10 languages. Background Seweryna Szmaglewska was an inmate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II in the years 1942–1945. She began her work on the book shortly after she was li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seweryna Szmaglewska
Seweryna Maria Szmaglewska (Seweryna Maria Szmaglewska-Wiśniewska) (11 February 1916 – 7 July 1992) was a Polish people, Polish writer, known for both books for children and adults alike, and an inmate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. Her novels ' (''Black Feet'') and ''Dymy nad Birkenau'' (''Smoke over Birkenau'') are compulsory reading in Polish schools. Biography She was born on 11 February 1916, in Przygłów near Piotrków Trybunalski, then in Central Powers-occupied part of the Congress Poland, Kingdom of Poland. She graduated from the Free Polish University and went on to study at the Polish language and literature faculties of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków and the University of Łódź. Between 1942 and 1945 she was an inmate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oświęcim after spending two months in the prisons of Piotrków and Częstochowa. In 1945 she successfully escaped the Nazis during a death march to Gross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool University Press
Liverpool University Press (LUP), founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. As the press of the University of Liverpool, it specialises in modern languages, literatures, history, and visual culture and currently publishes more than 160 books a year, as well as 50 academic journals. LUP's books are distributed in North America by Longleaf. History One of the earliest heads of LUP was Lascelles Abercrombie, the first poetry lecturer at the university.. Across its history a number of distinguished scholars have published with the Press, including the Nobel Prize winner Ronald Ross and the literary critic Hermione Lee. In 2004, the Press was restructured, changing from a department of the University of Liverpool to a subsidiary. Alongside its academic publishing, LUP is known for the Pavilion Poetry imprint. Inaugural poet Mona Arshi's collection, ''Small Hands'', won The Felix Dennis Prize for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish-language Books
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Personal Accounts Of The Holocaust
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1945 Non-fiction Books
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Compulsory Reading
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Days And Memory
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Auschwitz And After
''Auschwitz and After'' (''Auschwitz, et après'') is a first person account of life and survival in Birkenau by Charlotte Delbo, translated into English by Rose C. Lamont. Delbo, who had returned to occupied France to work in the French resistance alongside her husband, was sent to Auschwitz for her activities. Her memoir uses unconventional, almost experimental, narrative techniques to not only convey the experience of Auschwitz but how she and her fellow survivors coped in the years afterwards. Summary ''Auschwitz and After'' is a trilogy of separately published shorter works. ''None of Us Will Return'' (''Aucun de nous ne reviendra'') was completed in 1946 and published in 1965. ''Useless Knowledge'' (''La connaissance inutile''), written in 1946 and 1947, was published in 1970. The final volume, ''The Measure of Our Days'' (''Mesure de nos jours'') appeared in 1985. The first and last volumes deal with Auschwitz as lived and remembered, respectively, and do not entirely fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Delbo
Charlotte Delbo (10 August 1913 – 1 March 1985) was a French writer chiefly known for her haunting memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz, where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French Resistance. Biography Early life Charlotte Delbo was born in Vigneux-sur-Seine, Essonne near Paris in 1913, to Charles Delbo from the French department of Sarthe, and Ermini (née Morero) who moved from Italy to France at the age of 18-years. She gravitated toward theater and politics in her youth, joining the French Young Communist Women's League in 1932. She met and married George Dudach two years later. Later in the decade she went to work for actor and theatrical producer Louis Jouvet and was with his company in Buenos Aires when Wehrmacht forces invaded and occupied France in 1940. She could have waited to return when Philippe Pétain, leader of the collaborationist Vichy regime, established special courts in 1941 to deal with members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld
Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld (born 1938) is an American professor and scholar who has written about the Holocaust, and the new antisemitism. He holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University, and is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. Rosenfeld earned his PhD from Brown University in 1967. Books *''A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature,'' (Indiana University Press, 1980; paperback ed., 1988; German, Polish, and Hungarian editions). . * ''Imagining Hitler'' (Indiana University Press, 1985; Japanese-language translation). . * ''The End of the Holocaust,'' (Indiana University Press, 2011; German, Hebrew, Hungarian, and Polish translations). . * ''Deciphering the New Antisemitism'' (Indiana University Press; 2015). . * ''Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: The Dynamics of Delegitimization'' (Indiana University Press; 2019). Notable articles * * Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism. American Jewish C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piotr Kuncewicz
Piotr Kuncewicz (19 March 1936 – 9 April 2007) was a Polish writer and Freemason Freemasonry (sometimes spelled Free-Masonry) consists of fraternal groups that trace their origins to the medieval guilds of stonemasons. Freemasonry is the oldest secular fraternity in the world and among the oldest still-existing organizati ... in the Grand Orient of Poland. Works * ''Samotni wobec historii'', 1967 * ''Antyk zmęczonej Europy'', 1982, 1988 * ''Grochowiak'', 1976 * ''Cień ręki'', 1977 * ''W poszukiwaniu codzienności'', 1979 * ''Szumy'', 1976 * ''Dęby kapitolińskie'', 1970, 1973 * ''Zamieć'', 1972 * ''Agonia i nadzieja'': T. I. Literatura od 1919 (1993), T. II. Literatura od 1939 (1993), T. III. Poezja polska od 1956, część 1 i 2 (1994) * ''Goj patrzy na Żyda'', 2000. * ''Legenda Europy'', 2005 References Polish male writers Piotr 1936 births 2007 deaths {{Poland-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
