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by: Henia Karmel, Ilona Karmel
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.8517
EAN: 9780520251366
ISBN: 0520251369
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 158
Publication Date: October 08, 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Sales Rank: 930419
Studio: University of California Press
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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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This book of poetry is a must read for anyone interested in learning more about the Holocaust and survivors. The poems were written by sisters before and during their stay in Buchenwald.
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