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bobbygw's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: War, Antisemitism, Death, Xenophobia, Violence, and Vomit
zwayervin's review against another edition
5.0
Incredibly depressing and very very good. I find that many Holocaust books retroactively frame and apply a certain structure to the whole experience--not on purpose, I think, but for the sake of trying to explain what happened to people who weren't there. Delbo is good at recreating the experience and emotion of the Holocaust without ascribing a sensible plot that wasn't there in reality. It was crazy and it was awful and in many ways it did not end with the war. In fact, in many ways Delbo did not actually survive Auschwitz, and perhaps no survivor did. Very powerful book.
emma3244's review against another edition
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.25
nyssahhhh's review against another edition
Read this for HIST 3727W History of the Holocaust, Spring 2008. (I think. Can't remember exactly which Holocaust course it was.)
katieejayne's review against another edition
5.0
It's always difficult reviewing books that pertain to the Holocaust. Part of me doesn't feel qualified and part of me wonders if in some way it's disregarding the author's experience. With that in mind, as I mentioned in my 'review' for Night by Elie Wiesel (here) this will be more a discussion.
Auschwitz and After details the experience of Charlotte Delbo who was a French Resistance fighter that ended up in Auschwitz and a few camps before eventually being liberated. Interestingly, she was not Jewish and yet suffered similar but not exactly the same treatment. Within the book, she herself acknowledges that whilst the POW suffered terribly the Jewish prisoners suffered infinitely more so.
The book is separated into three difficulty sections, during Auschwitz, leaving Auschwitz and entering a different camp and ultimately the experience of those who managed to go home. It's a harrowing, but beautiful read. The chapters are broken into bits of prose, vignettes and poems. It's strange to call a book on this topic beautiful but it truly was.
The first book, None of Us Will Return was the piece I had to read for my course but I ended up finishing the book simply because I was captivated by Delbo's writing.
A truly astounding work.
www.a-novel-idea.co.uk
Auschwitz and After details the experience of Charlotte Delbo who was a French Resistance fighter that ended up in Auschwitz and a few camps before eventually being liberated. Interestingly, she was not Jewish and yet suffered similar but not exactly the same treatment. Within the book, she herself acknowledges that whilst the POW suffered terribly the Jewish prisoners suffered infinitely more so.
The book is separated into three difficulty sections, during Auschwitz, leaving Auschwitz and entering a different camp and ultimately the experience of those who managed to go home. It's a harrowing, but beautiful read. The chapters are broken into bits of prose, vignettes and poems. It's strange to call a book on this topic beautiful but it truly was.
The first book, None of Us Will Return was the piece I had to read for my course but I ended up finishing the book simply because I was captivated by Delbo's writing.
A truly astounding work.
www.a-novel-idea.co.uk
ned_reading's review
Only had to read excerpts for class - and it was too traumatic too read the rest of at the moment if I don't need to.