spectres writings auschwitz resistance

books:

Auschwitz, et après, tome 2
Charlotte Delbo

Editions de Minuit, 1970

Days and Memory
Charlotte Delbo

Marlboro Press, 2001

In poems, stories, and dialogues, Delbo interweaves memories of Auschwitz with scenes from Spain, Greece, Argentina, and the Soviet Union.

Spectres, mes compagnons
Charlotte Delbo

Berg International, 1995

None of Us Will Return

1 review
Charlotte Delbo

Beacon Pr, 1978

The horrors of the German death camps.
Delbo is a French Resistance person who is caught by the Germans and put in their death camps. The last camp she served in was Auschwitz. In this very short book she writes of the horrors of the death camps. The writing is almost dream like (or nightmare like). One might have to read the passages twice in order to understand what she is trying to pass along. What can you say about these books. ...

Auschwitz and After

3 reviews
Charlotte Delbo

Yale University Press, 1997

If you read no other book on the Holocaust, read this one.
The other two reviews are so insightful and accurate, in my opinion, I should have little to add. Yet, after reading "Auschwitz and After", I felt I had to express something of how the book made me understand and grow. As a convert to Judaism (born in 1951, I was on the pathway my whole life, I realize now), I have read many, many books/memoirs/histories on the Holocaust. Many of them have ...

Convoy To Auschwitz: Women of the French Resistance (Women's Life Writings from Around the World)

1 review
Charlotte Delbo

Northeastern, 1997

WOW!!!
I am so glad that this book was translated to english and published here in the States. Please, don't get me wrong, but it is "nice" to have a book about other victims of the Nazi death camps besides Jewish accounts. It serves to remind us and teach us that others too were sentenced to those Death Camps. Many gypsies, resisters, communists, christians, and lesbians, all from different countries, ...