num_pages: 360
description: In March 1942, French police arrested Charlotte Delbo and her husband, the resistance leader Georges Dudach, on a charge of distributing anti-German leaflets in Paris. The French turned them over to the Gestapo, who imprisoned them. Dudach was executed by firing squad in May; Delbo remained in prison until January 1943, when she was deported to Auschwitz and then to Ravensbruck, where she remained until the end of the war. This book - Delbo's profoundly moving vignettes, poems, and prose poems of life in the concentration camps and afterward - is a memoir of great literary value. It is a unique document by a female resistance leader, a non-Jew, and a remarkable writer who transforms the experience of the Holocaust into spare, austere, yet lyric prose.
language: English
title: Auschwitz and After
titlecomplete: Auschwitz and After
genres: War, Nonfiction, World War II, Holocaust, History, Poetry, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Biography, France
ratings_count: 1168
places: Ravensbrück, Auschwitz
series: Auschwitz, et après
publisher: Yale University Press