Auschwitz : true tales from a grotesque land / Sara Nomberg-Przytyk ; translated by Roslyn Hirsch ; edited by Eli Pfefferkorn and David H. Hirsch.
TITLE:
Auschwitz : true tales from a grotesque land / Sara Nomberg-Przytyk ; translated by Roslyn Hirsch ; edited by Eli Pfefferkorn and David H. Hirsch.
Publication Date:
1985
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press,
Physical Description:
xii, 185 p.
Geographic Term:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
Commemorative in spirit and artistic in form, Auschwitz convincingly portrays the paradoxes of human nature in extreme circumstances. With consummate understatement Nomberg-Przytyk describes the behavior of concentration camp inmates as she relentlessly and pitilessly examines her own motives and feelings. In this world unmitigated cruelty coexisted with nobility, rapacity with self-sacrifice, indifference with selfless compassion. This book offers a chilling view of the human drama that existed in Auschwitz.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780807816295
General Note:
Translated from the unpublished Polish manuscript.
