Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death : Reflections on Memory and Imagination / Otto Dov Kulka.
Kulka, Otto Dov, author.
2013
D804.3 . K79 2013eb
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Title Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death : Reflections on Memory and Imagination / Otto Dov Kulka.
Author Kulka, Otto Dov, author.
ISBN 9780674075092
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674075092
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (139 p.) : 48 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674075092 doi
Call Number D804.3 . K79 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.53/18
Summary Historian Otto Dov Kulka has dedicated his life to studying and writing about Nazism and the Holocaust. Until now he has always set to one side his personal experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz. Breaking years of silence, Kulka brings together the personal and historical, in a devastating, at times poetic, account of the concentration camps and the private mythology one man constructed around his experiences. Auschwitz is for the author a vast repository of images, memories, and reveries: "the Metropolis of Death" over which rules the immutable Law of Death. Between 1991 and 2001, Kulka made audio recordings of these memories as they welled up, and in Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death he sifts through these fragments, attempting to make sense of them. He describes the Family Camp's children's choir in which he and others performed "Ode to Joy" within yards of the crematoria, his final, indelible parting from his mother when the camp was liquidated, and the "black stains" along the roadside during the winter death march. Amidst so much death Kulka finds moments of haunting, almost unbearable beauty (for beauty, too, Kulka says, is an inescapable law). As the author maps his interior world, readers gain a new sense of what it was to experience the Shoah from inside the camps-both at the time, and long afterward. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death is a unique and powerful experiment in how one man has tried to understand his past, and our shared history.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
1. A Prologue that Could Also Be an Epilogue
2. Between Theresienstadt and Auschwitz
3. Final Liquidation of the 'Family Camp'
4. Autumn 1944: Auschwitz - Ghostly Metropolis
5. Observations and Perplexities about Scenes in the Memory
6. Three Poems from the Brink of the Gas Chambers
7. Journey to the Satellite City of the Metropolis of Death
8. Landscapes of a Private Mythology
9. Rivers which Cannot be Crossed and the 'Gate of the Law'
10. In Search of History and Memory
Three Chapters from the Diaries
11. Dream: Jewish Prague and the Great Death
12. Doctor Mengele Frozen in Time
13. God's Grieving
Appendix: Ghetto in an Annihilation Camp: Jewish Social History in the Holocaust Period and its Ultimate Limits
List of Illustrations
Notes

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