Landscapes of the metropolis of death
Subtitle: reflections on memory and imagination
By: Otto Dov Kulka ; translated by Ralph Mandel
Edition: First Harvard University Press edition.
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780674072893
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Influence; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Memory
Description: The historian reveals his experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz, presenting a personal and historical account of life at the camp and of the private mythology he constructed to understand his past.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127).

"Text originally written in Hebrew and translated by Ralph Mandel, except 'Ghetto in an annihilation camp', which was first presented in English at the Fourth Yad Vashem International History Conference"--Publisher's note.
Table of contents: title: 1. A prologue that could also be an epilogue; title: 2. Between Theresienstadt and Auschwitz; title: 3. The final liquidation of the 'family camp'; title: Autumn 1944: Auschwitz, ghostly metropolis; title: 5. Observations and perplexities about senes in the memory; title: 6. Three poems from the brink of the gas chambers; title: 7. Journey to the satellite city of the metropolis of death; title: 8. Landscapes of a private mythology; title: 9. Rivers which cannot be crossed and the 'Gate of the Law'; title: 10. In search of history and memory : three chapters from the diaries; title: 11. Dream: Jewish Prague and the Great Death; title: 12. Doctor Mengele frozen in time; title: 13. God's grieving.