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Auschwitz and After Paperback – Illustrated, September 30, 2014

by Charlotte Delbo (Author), Rosette C. Lamont (Translator), Lawrence L. Langer (Introduction)
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The memoir of Charlotte Delbo, a French writer sent to Auschwitz for her resistance activities against the Nazi occupation of France and the Vichy government

“Delbo’s exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time.”—Sara R. Horowitz, York University

Charlotte Delbo’s moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the postwar trauma of survivors, Auschwitz and After, is now a classic of Holocaust literature. Offering the rare perspective of a non-Jew, Delbo records moments of horror and of desperate efforts at mutual support, of the everyday deprivation and abuse experienced by everyone in the camps, and especially by children. Auschwitz and After conveys how a survivor must “carry the word” and continue to live after surviving one of the greatest catastrophes of the twentieth century.

This second edition includes an updated and expanded introduction by Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer.
 
“No memoir of those times is more sensitive and less sentimental.”—Geoffrey Hartman
 
“I find Rosette C. Lamont’s remarkable translation of Charlotte Delbo’s work perceptive, delicate, and poignant, in short: exceptional.”—Elie Wiesel

“Delbo’s exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time. The superb new introduction by Lawrence L. Langer illuminates the subtlety and complexity of Delbo’s meditation on memory, time, culpability, and survival, in the context of what Langer calls the ‘afterdeath’ of the Holocaust. Delbo’s powerful trilogy belongs on every bookshelf.”—Sara R. Horowitz, York University
 
Winner of the 1995 American Literary Translators Association Award
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  6. ISBN-10
    0300190778
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"I find Rosette C. Lamont’s remarkable translation of Charlotte Delbo’s work perceptive, delicate, and poignant—in short: exceptional."—Elie Wiesel

"For 75 years, Nazism’s victims have told their affliction. This will carry on. Meanwhile, no other 'Auschwitz' writer than Charlotte Delbo has so clearly shown human detail and human depth."—John Felstiner, author of Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems

"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time.  The superb new introduction by Lawrence L. Langer illuminates the subtlety and complexity of Delbo's meditation on memory, time, culpability, and survival, in the context of what Langer calls the 'afterdeath' of the Holocaust. Delbo's powerful trilogy belongs on every bookshelf."—Sara R. Horowitz, York University
 

About the Author

Charlotte Delbo (1913–1985) was the author of numerous plays and essays. Rosette C. Lamont (1927–2012) was a professor of French and comparative literature at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Lawrence L. Langer is Professor of English emeritus at Simmons College in Boston.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press; Second edition (September 30, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300190778
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300190779
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
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Dianne
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2021
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In the top five Holocaust memoirs, at the very least. It is for this, experiences as extreme and at the level of intensity that Charlotte’s were, that prose exists. No fact, map or statistic can take you into another’s heart and mind like the illogical and natural process of prose. If you aren’t ready to feel what the Holocaust really was to all those millions of people then don’t read this book. It wasn’t translated into english until ‘95 and I know why. America may not be ready for this kind of deep and real either. To say you’ll have to put it down to ponder or cry a few times seems lame. This book will make your soul ache.
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Wallla Walla woman
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible account
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2016
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Delhi is an outstanding writer. At the conclusion of a year-long adult study group all agreed that Delbo's account of concentration camp life was the most moving we had read. That is a recommendation and a warning. She takes the writer on a tour of hell complete with sights, sounds, smells and emotions.
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Caryn
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Powerful
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2016
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This book was one of the most powerful holocaust stories I have read ( of many), and the author breathed life into each character.
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Lou Gottlieb
5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to be in a Camp for a fraction of a second,
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2021
Delbo has spoken the unspeakable.
If you can stand to, read even ONE vignette and let it overwhelm you.
Experience the dissociation, the total fragmentation, the objective reality of the unthinkable, the unspeakable, the unimaginable.

You will then instantaneously know why the Holocaust (and its Armenian and Tibetan relatives) was such an immense karmic crime.

The Germans (like their Turkish and Chinese relatives) took the concept of a human entirely without real conscience (that is, the Representative of the Creator inside one) to its practical conclusion, and this is the result.
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Hobbit
5.0 out of 5 stars Goes beyond the horrors to provide glimpses into the heart and psyche of those who experienced it.
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2014
Many books expose the horrors of the Holocaust. This brilliantly written book goes beyond the mind numbing
atrocities and provides the reader with glimpses into the heart and psyche of those who experienced that horror.
Students of the Holocaust can read, study and THINK they understand, but I don't believe any of us truly can.
It's too immense in its cruelty, too abstracted from our reality. As author Charlotte Delbo writes, "This dot on the map
This black spot at the core of Europe... Today people know, have known for several years, that this dot on the map is Auschwitz. This much they know - as for the rest they think they know." Students of the Holocaust must rely on the insights provided for us by writers such as Charlotte Delbo. Often, in just a few words or phrases, Ms. Delbo provides moments of crystal clarity for the reader. She enables the reader to get a sense of life ripped from "reality" and left suspended in an existence that no mind can't fully comprehend. And after surviving years of deprivation and depravity, Ms. Delbo enables us to sense the great difficulty of returning and fitting into the "normal" world. Again, this is a brilliantly written book - wonderfully insightful and deeply honest. It should be read by ALL who desire to understand the full meaning of the statement: Never Again.
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S. D. Neighbour
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 22, 2016
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This is the second edition so I don't know what, if any, changes there will be. If it's as astonishing as the original then it will be brilliant beyond words of my inadequate prose. Delbo was transported with a group of French resisters, their journey ably covered en-masse in Caroline Moorehead's book  A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz . Delbo's is a cut above, which would be surprising since it's a cut above almost every other account I have read. Treat yourself to something rare, clear-eyed, unsentimental and amazing;
"It's like there's another skin beneath this skin and that skin's called Auschwitz, and you cannot shed it you know...We carry this. I am not like you. You have one vision of life and I have two. I -you know -I lived on two planets...it's like the planet was chopped up into a [normal] part -so-called-normal lives: our lives are not really normal -and this other planet, and we we're herded onto that planet from this one and herded back again, having nothing, virtually nothing in common with the inhabitants of this planet. And we have...we have these double lives and it's too much".
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Sue H
5.0 out of 5 stars a good insight to Auchswitz
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 29, 2023
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Read this before a trip to the concentration camps to give me further insight into the history. Very interesting read.
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Sharon Braham.
5.0 out of 5 stars I'm glad I read it, but it's pretty harrowing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2019
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This book in many ways differs from so many autobiographical works about concentration camps in that it is not narrative. Many of the pieces are more in the nature of vignettes. There is also poetry. But it is poetry which only carries its full meaning if you read the prose. Otherwise it might seem a bit spare and not seem to relate to anything.
It is not cheerful, then you wouldn't expect it to be, but it is important. I think some short extracts should be required reading for secondary school students. Just to read her account of extreme thirst alone would be something you could carry forward for the rest of your life. I can't help thinking that it would have some impact on people's actions and their understanding of such regimes, from whatever politics they originate.
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Mark Saville
5.0 out of 5 stars Compassion
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2019
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I felt this book as I read it. If you only ever read one book about what happened, make it this one. I wish I could have met her, and I wish this had never happened.
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Robert Cook
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a fantastic book In every way
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2018
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This is a fantastic book In every way. Beautifully written . Anybody interested in the Holocaust must read this book !!!!!
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