Physical Description
xii, 127 p. : illustrations ; 23 cm
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.
ISBN
9780674072893
0674072898 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127).
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.
"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.
