Landscapes of the metropolis of death
Subtitle: reflections on memory and imagination
By: Otto Dov Kulka ; translated by Ralph Mandel
Contributors: Mandel, Ralph, translator
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780718197025
Subjects: Czech Personal narratives; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); World War, 1939-1945; German Prisoners and prisons
Description: "Otto Dov Kulka's memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the Holocaust... As a child, the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism and the Holocaust, but always as a discipline requiring the greatest coldness and objectivity, with his personal story set to one side. But he has remained haunted by specific memories and images, thoughts he has been unable to shake off." --Publisher's description.
Notes: This translation originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2013.

Translated from the Hebrew.