Title: Auschwitz and after
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Biography, French Personal narratives, Personal narratives, French, Political prisoners, World War, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, french, Political prisoners, france, World war, 1939-1945, underground movements, france, 18.25 French literature, 89.21 fascism, 15.70 history of Europe, Judenvernichtung, Schreiben nach Auschwitz, Concentratiekampen, Personal narratives, Political prisioners, Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Places: France
People: Charlotte Delbo
LC classification: D805.P7 D41613 1995