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by: Magdolna Klein, Susan Simpson Geroe, Susan Simpson Geroe
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 859.132
EAN: 9781564741905
ISBN: 1564741907
Label: Fithian Press
Manufacturer: Fithian Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: 1997-02
Publisher: Fithian Press
Sales Rank: 2751093
Studio: Fithian Press
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Magdalena Klein was born in 1920, in Marghita, Romania. In 1944, she was deported with her parents and sisters from their home in Nagyvarad, Hungary (today Oradea, Romania) to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The poetic journal Magdalena kept since a teenager shows the stark contrast between her youthful love of life and the grim reality of the world around her. On the one hand are her intellectual brilliance and her confidence in herself; on the other are the apparent hopelessness of her situation.
Petite and physically frail, Magdalena was able to survive starvation, forced marches and other atrocities during the Holocaust, but not the emotional pain and nightmares, which haunted her later. Her poems bear witness to what a human being can and cannot endure.
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Rating: - The private universe of a young girl in the Holocaust
The work only appears to be a simple volume of poems. It is at the same time the decanted expression of a painful life experience. It is the inner view of the Holocaust, lived by a young woman who survived it in its first phase. As the title of the book suggests, it is the fragile private universe of a young girl, shattered abruptly and brutally by history's "tread mill".
In a short documentary style introduction, the editor recreates the biography and portrait of the poems' ... Read More
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