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A wall of two : poems of resistance and suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and beyond /

From the Publisher: Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Krakow ghetto. These remarkable poems were written during that time. The sisters wrote the poems on worksheets stolen from the factories where they work...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Karmel-Wolfe, Henia
Otros Autores: Howe, Fanny, Galles, Arie Alexander, 1944-, Niesluchowski, Warren, Karmel, Ilona, 1925-2000
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Polaco
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Colección:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface: To an unknown reader
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Key to translators
  • Poems
  • Autobiography: Childhood
  • March of the fifteen-year-old boys
  • Us
  • Procession
  • Land of Germany
  • German uniform mania
  • Pursuit at night
  • To a friend from a strange planet
  • Fatherland
  • Day will come
  • Night among Frenchwomen
  • Mark on the wall
  • Snapshots
  • On learning of the latest transport
  • Days of vengeance
  • Flight for life
  • Origin of a poem
  • Terrifying laughter
  • Our blood
  • Time
  • Strange poem
  • Child's vision of peace
  • My life
  • Verses
  • Answer
  • Demand
  • Abscess
  • To our professors
  • Prison nights
  • Harmonica
  • Fear in the barracks
  • When you find out
  • Encounter
  • Two machines
  • Christ lonely
  • To the rhythm of a very fast waltz
  • Robots
  • Bread
  • Pears
  • Waiting
  • Gallows
  • Army in retreat
  • Anniversaries
  • Memory: Skarzysko
  • To the German people
  • At Laban's grave
  • Meditation in an air raid shelter
  • My language
  • Movie
  • Converts
  • Bastard
  • To my Hungarian brothers
  • No one is calling
  • My songs
  • To Jews abroad
  • My freedom
  • Letter from the hospital
  • Second letter
  • Purim 1946
  • Autobiography: Youth
  • Open letter to Julian Tuwim-1947
  • Afterword / Leon Wolfe
  • Notes on the translations
  • About the translators
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments of permissions.