GENERAL INTRODUCTION: On Reading Holocaust Literature I THE WAY IT WAS 1: Jankiel Weirnik,: One Year in Treblinka from The Death Camp in Treblinka: A Documentary 2: Kulmhof (Chelmno): Extermination Camp from The Good Old Days; The Holocaust and Seen By Its Perpetrators and Bystanders 3: Frantisek R. Kraus,: But Lidice is in Europe! from Terezin 4: Jacques Furmanski,: Conversation with a Dead Man from ir Haben Es Gesehen 5: Charlotte Delbo,: Voices from Days and Memory 6: Christopher R. Browning,: One Day in Jozefow: Initiation to Mass Murder from Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World 7: Primo Levi,: Shame from The Drowned and the Saved 8: Jean Amery,: Torture from At the Mind's Limits 9: Elie Wiesel,: A Plea for the Dead from Legends of Our Time II JOURNALS AND DIARIES (Introduction) 1: Abraham Lewin,: Diary of the Great Deportation from A Cup of Tears; A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto Langer (Holocaust Anthology) 2: Joseph Zelkowicz,: Days of Nightmare from Lucy S.Dawidowicz, A Holocaust Reader 3: Avraham Tory,: Memoir from Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary III FICTION (Introduction) 1: Ida Fink: The Key Game, A Spring Morning from A Scrap of Time and Other Stories 3: Isaiah Spiegel,: Bread From Midstream 4: Bernard Gotfryd: The Last Morning from Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust 5: Aharon Appelfeld: Tzili 6: Tadeusz Borowski: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen from This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 7: Arnost Lustig: Infinity from Street of Lost Brothers 8: Adolf Rudnicki: The Crystal Stream from Ascent to Heaven 9: Alexander Kluge: Lieutenant Boulanger from Attendance List for a Funeral 8: Jakov Lind: Resurrection from Soul of Wood 9: Pierre Gascar: Season of the Dead from Beasts and Men and The Seed IV DRAMA (Introduction) Joshua Sobol: Ghetto V POETRY (Introduction) 1: Abraham Sutzkever: War, Faces in Swamps,(I-V) My every breath is a curse. How? Grains of Wheat, Stalks, Frozen Jews, Resurrection, Black Thorns from A. Sutzkever: Selected Poetry and Prose In a Cell, For My Child, Burnt Pearls, Poem About A Herring, Self-Portrait from Burnt Pearls: Ghetto Poems of Abraham Sutzkever 2: Dan Pagis: Autobiography, Europe, Late, Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car, The Roll Call, Testimony, Instruction for Crossing the Border,Draft of a Reparations Agreement, Footprints, Ready for Parting from Points of Departure 3: Paul Celan: Death Fugue, Aspen Tree, With a Variable Key, Nocturnally Pouting, Tenebrae, There Was Earth Inside Them, Psalm, Alchemical, Radix, Matrix, Tabernacle Window, ...And No Kind Of from Paul Celan: Poems From Things Lost, Sound-Dead Sister-Shell, In the Corner of Time, From the Beam from Last Poems 4: Miklos Radnoti: War Diary, Il Faut Laisser..., Guard and Protect Me, In A Troubled Hour, Like Death, Floral Song, The Fifth Eclogue (fragment), O Ancient Prisons, Dreamscape, Fragment, Root, A la Recherche..., Forced March, Razglednicas from Zsuzsanna Ozsvath and Fredrick Turner, eds., Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti 5: Nelly Sachs: O the night of the weeping children! Even the old men's last breath, What secret cravings of the blood, You onlookers, If I only new, Chorus of the Rescued, Chorus of the Unborn, Night, night, If the prophets broke in, O the homeless colors of the evening sky! In the evening your vision widens, Peoples of the earth, Landscape of screams from O The Chimneys and The Seeker and Other Poems 6: Jacob Gladstein: Good night, World, God is a Sad Maharal, I Have Never Been Here Before, Smoke, Cloud-Jew from Richard J. Fein, ed., Selected Poems of Yankev Glatshteyn VI PAINTERS OF TEREZIN 1: Leo Haas: The Affair of the Painters of Terezin from Terezin 2 20 halftones (black and white):
