A Holocaust Reader

H-Judaic TOC: Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader

Discussion published by Rafael Chaiken on Friday, July 27, 2018

SUNY Press is pleased to annouce the July publication ofWriting in Witness: A Holocaust Reader, edited by Eric J. Sundquist. The book is a comprhensive survey of the most important writing to emerge from the Holocaust. It will be of interest to instructors of courses in Holocaust literature, memoir, and history.

A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture, edited by Ezra Cappell. Available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions at http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6583-writing-in-witness.aspx (a full description is online).

Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on Sources and the Text

Prisoners: A Prologue

Victor Klemperer, The Yellow Star

Jean Amery, Torture

Anonymous Warsaw Man, A Warsaw Jew Writes to His Gentile Friend

Yehoshua Moshe Aaronson, The Scroll of the House of Bondage

Hilda Dajč, Letters from a Concentration Camp in Serbia

Odd Nansen, A Decent Man

Yitzhak Katzenelson, Vittel Prison Diary

Ella Lingens‑Reiner, Prisoners of Fear

Abraham Levite, For an Auschwitz Anthology

In the Ghetto

Yankev Glatshteyn (Jacob Glatstein), Good Night, World

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Samuel Golfard, “One must write with blood”

Avraham Tory, Kovno Diary—Roundup and Murders at the Ninth Fort

Herman Kruk, Vilna Diary—Eyewitness to Murder at Ponary

Abraham Sutzkever, Three Poems from the Vilna Ghetto

Oskar Rosenfeld, Starvation in the Ghetto

Simkhe Bunem Shayevitsh, Lekh‑Lekho

Anonymous Łodź Boy, “To ease my bitter heart”

Emanuel Ringelblum, “Why is the world silent?”

Chaim A. Kaplan, Scroll of Agony

Gusta Davidson Draenger, Resistance in Krakow

The Final Solution

Lidia Maximovna Slipchenko, Mass Murder in Odessa

Piotr Rawicz, Blood from the Sky

Hermann Friedrich Graebe, Massacre, Resistance, and Rescue

Philip Mechanicus, “Inside the belly of the venomous snake”: Transports from Westerbork

Alexander Donat, “Hell has no bottom”: Majdanek

Kurt Gerstein, Witness at Belżec

Seweryna Szmaglewska, Slave Labor and Death in Birkenau

Primo Levi, “The saved and the drowned”: The Prominents and the Muselmanner

Abraham Krzepicki, Transport to Treblinka

Rachel Auerbach, The Road to Heaven

Oskar Strawczynski, The Treblinka Orchestra

Paul Celan, Death Fugue

The Gray Zone

Chaim Rumkowski, “Give me your children”

Josef Zelkowicz, “The heart of a slaughterer”: The Jewish Police at Work

Calel Perechodnik, Am I a Murderer?

Sara Nomberg‑Przytyk, The Block of Death

Gisella Perl, Childbirth in Auschwitz‑Birkenau

Szlama Winer, Inside the Chełmno Death Camp

Zalmen Gradowski, “In the deep sea of corpses”: The Czech Transport

Holy Days

Shimon Huberband, Kiddush Hashem

David Kahane, “How shall we sing the Lord’s song?”

Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira, “Love God with all your heart”: The Lesson of Rabbi Akiva

Zelig Kalmanovitch, “What is a Jew and who is a Jew?”

Etty Hillesum, “The thinking heart of a whole concentration camp”

Anonymous Warsaw Poet, And I Will Impart My Revenge upon Edom

Abel J. Herzberg, Jewish Faith, Jewish Unity

Survivors

Hanna Levy‑Hass, Last Days of Bergen‑Belsen

Robert Antelme, Death March through Germany

Jorge Semprun, “But can the story be told?”

Charlotte Delbo, The Stream

Yekhiel Kirshnbaum, The City without Jews

Elie Wiesel, Why I Write

Ruth Kluger, Still Alive

Aharon Appelfeld, The Awakening

Notes Selected Bibliography Index