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Dr. Josef's Little Beauty
A Holocaust story as fascinating and compelling as it is terrifying and puzzling—a book about aging and war crimes, pain and pride. In the middle of summer, omnipresent heat radiates as a group of elderly people are remembering their youth. The story focuses on two sisters, Leokadia and Helena, who live together in a retirement home not far from Warsaw. These are not ordinary stories they are sharing because both of them were imprisoned as children in Auschwitz during World War II. At the center is Helena, who at the age of 12 was saved from extermination by the notorious doctor Josef Mengele, the real-life Nazi officer and physician who was known as the “angel of death” for the experiments he conducted on prisoners, including twins and siblings. This is a story both provocative and disturbing about the fear that lingers in victims. Was the sisters’ relationship with the executioner a desperate attempt to save their lives, or perhaps they harbor a hideous pride and sense of superiority over other prisoners? Rudzka’s extraordinary writing turns unsettling questions about memory and survival into art.
Krótka wymiana ognia
Powieściowy powrót cenionej autorki po kilkunastu latach milczenia. Krótka wymiana ognia, czyli historia miłosnego piekła. Fragmenty losów różnych bohaterów tworzą historię rodziny, która rozpada się na kawałki. Związki z żoną, kochankami, córkami tworzą wielowątkową opowieść o seksualności kobiet. Nieoczywistej, formacyjnej i ciągle na nowo odkrywanej, której symbolem jest Mokra – rzeka z dziecinnych stron. Protoplastka rodu opowiada swoje życie studni. To wojenne i to współczesne. Naznaczone wyobcowaniem, walką o mężczyznę, trudnym macierzyństwem. Jest tu i miejsce dla aktora dubbingowego, jego emocjonalnych uzależnień i porzucającej swój zawód tłu...
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Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction
The Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction aims to increase the visibility and show the versatility of works from East-Central European countries. It is the first encyclopedic work to bridge the gap between the literary production of countries that are considered to be main sites of the Holocaust and their recognition in international academic and public discourse. It contains over 100 entries offering not only facts about the content and motifs but also pointing out the characteristic fictional features of each work and its meaning for academic discourse and wider reception in the country of origin and abroad. The publication will appeal to the academic and broader public i...
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Die Familie Haberstein wird bei dem Versuch, dem Holocaust zu entkommen, voneinander getrennt. Der Riss zerstört fortan nicht nur die Familie, sondern immer wieder auch die Beziehungen zu anderen. Über Generationen hinweg bleiben tiefe Wunden in den Seelen und Körpern aller Familienmitglieder, die erst Jahrzehnte später heilen, wenn sich für zwei der Nachkommen, Bella und Nathan, das Schicksal erfüllt. Zyta Rudzka rekonstruiert in ihrer glasklaren, lichten Prosa die Vergangenheit einer jüdischen Familie und beleuchtet schlaglichtartig die zerrissenen Identitäten der Familienmitglieder. Sie findet zu einer zwingenden, lyrisch verdichteten Form, die die Verletzungen, die der Holocaust dieser Familie zugefügt hat, spürbar werden lässt. Ein poetisches Meisterwerk über Liebe und Ablehnung, aber auch über die Macht des Schicksals!
Perverse Memory and the Holocaust
Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, it examines representations of the Holocaust in order to explore the perverse mechanisms of memory at work, in which surface a series of phenomena difficult to remember: the pleasure derived from witnessing scenes of violence, identification with the German perpetrators of violence, the powerful fear of revenge at the hands of Jewish victims, and the adoption of the position of genocide victims. Moving away from the focus of previous psychoanalytic studies of memory on questions of mourning, melancholy, repressed memory, and loss, this volume considers the transformation of the collective identity of those who remained in the space of past Holocaust events: bystanders, who partook in the events and benefited from the extermination of the Jews. A critique of ‘perverse memory’ that hampers attempts to work through what is remembered, this book will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences working in the fields of Holocaust studies, memory studies, psychoanalytic studies, and cultural studies.
