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A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond

A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond

Karmel, Ilona
Galles, Arie A.
Karmel, Henia

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry AnthologiesGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0520251369
ISBN13: 9780520251366
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Oct 8 2007
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.34 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Kraków ghetto. These remarkable poems were written during that time. The sisters wrote the poems on worksheets stolen from the factories where they worked by day and hid them in their clothing. During what she thought were the last days of her life, Henia entrusted the poems to a cousin who happened to pass her in the forced march at the end of the war. The cousin gave them to Henia's husband in Kraków, who would not locate and reunite with his wife for another six months.

This is the first English publication of these extraordinary poems. Fanny Howe's deft adaptations preserve their freshness and innocence while making them entirely compelling. 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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