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| Genre/Form: | Translations into English Poetry |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Karmel-Wolfe, Henia. Wall of two. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007 (OCoLC)607692300 Online version: Karmel-Wolfe, Henia. Wall of two. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007 (OCoLC)608121806 |
| Named Person: | Henia Karmel-Wolfe; Ilona Karmel |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Henia Karmel-Wolfe; Fanny Howe; Arie Alexander Galles; Warren Niesluchowski; Ilona Karmel |
| ISBN: | 9780520251359 0520251350 9780520251366 0520251369 |
| OCLC Number: | 123232388 |
| Description: | xxxvii, 119 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | List of illustrations -- Preface: To an unknown reader -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Key to translators -- Poems -- Autobiography: Childhood -- March of the fifteen-year-old boys -- Us -- Procession -- Land of Germany -- German uniform mania -- Pursuit at night -- To a friend from a strange planet -- Fatherland -- Day will come -- Night among Frenchwomen -- Mark on the wall -- Snapshots -- On learning of the latest transport -- Days of vengeance -- Flight for life -- Origin of a poem -- Terrifying laughter -- Our blood -- Time -- Strange poem -- Child's vision of peace -- My life -- Verses -- Answer -- Demand -- Abscess -- To our professors -- Prison nights -- Harmonica -- Fear in the barracks -- When you find out -- Encounter -- Two machines -- Christ lonely -- To the rhythm of a very fast waltz -- Robots -- Bread -- Pears -- Waiting -- Gallows -- Army in retreat -- Anniversaries -- Memory: Skarzysko -- To the German people -- At Laban's grave -- Meditation in an air raid shelter -- My language -- Movie -- Converts -- Bastard -- To my Hungarian brothers -- No one is calling -- My songs -- To Jews abroad -- My freedom -- Letter from the hospital -- Second letter -- Purim 1946 -- Autobiography: Youth -- Open letter to Julian Tuwim-1947 -- Afterword / Leon Wolfe -- Notes on the translations -- About the translators -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments of permissions. |
| Series Title: | S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. |
| Other Titles: | Poems. |
| Responsibility: | Henia Karmel and Ilona Karmel ; introduction and adaptations by Fanny Howe ; translated from the Polish by Arie A. Galles and Warren Niesluchowski. |
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Abstract:
Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Krakow ghetto. These remarkable poems were written during that time. They are presented with a biographical introduction that conveys the powerful story of the sisters' survival from capture to freedom in 1946.
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"A stirring collection of poems."--Jewish Exponent "A remarkable unified body of survivors' words."--Jewish Book World "Nothing can better describe the message of this moving collection than the authors' 'preface': 'These poems... form one cry only: 'Remember'."--European Legacy Read more...
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