In March 1942, French police arrested Charlotte Delbo and her husband, the resistance leader Georges Dudach, on a charge of distributing anti-German leaflets in Paris. The French turned them over to the Gestapo, who imprisoned them. Dudach was executed by firing squad in May; Delbo remained in prison until January 1943, when she was deported to Auschwitz and then to Ravensbruck, where she remained until the end of the war. This book - Delbo's profoundly moving vignettes, poems, and prose poems of life in the concentration camps and afterward - is a memoir of great literary value. It is a unique document by a female resistance leader, a non-Jew, and a remarkable writer who transforms the experience of the Holocaust into spare, austere, yet lyric prose.

Auschwitz and After

Delbo, Charlotte

Biographies & Memoirs

Yale University Press

This unique and profoundly moving memoir of life in the concentration camps and afterward was written by a French female resistance leader, a non-Jew who became an important literary figure in post-war France. Now available in English in its entirety for the first time, this book includes vignettes, poems, and prose poems that speak eloquently of horror, heroism, and conscience.

History

World

Written by a member of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the postwar experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes. This second edition includes an updated and expanded introduction and new bibliography by Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer. “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

Historical

A former French Resistance fighter records her memories of Auschwitz in terse, moving prose and free verse

None of Us Will Return (English and French Edition)

Beacon Press

In Auschwitz, memory meant life: remembering the humanity extinguished by the death camps and hoping to survive to tell what had been endured. Charlotte Delbo, a non-Jew sent to Auschwitz for being a member of the French resistance movement, recalls the poems, vignettes, and meditations that fed her companions' spirits, interweaving her experiences with the sufferings of others and depicting dignity and decency in the face of inhumanity.

Days and Memory

Community & Culture

Marlboro Press

In Auschwitz, memory meant life: remembering the humanity extinguished by the death camps and hoping to survive to tell what had been endured. Charlotte Delbo, a non-Jew sent to Auschwitz for being a member of the French resistance movement, recalls the poems, vignettes, and meditations that fed her companions' spirits, interweaving her experiences with the sufferings of others and depicting dignity and decency in the face of inhumanity.

Profiles French Resistance members

Convoy To Auschwitz: Women of the French Resistance (Women's Life Writings from Around the World)

Northeastern University Press

Charlotte Delbo était une des 230 femmes qui, dans Le Convoi du 24 janvier, partirent en 1943 de Compiègne pour Auschwitz. Aucun de nous ne reviendra est, plus qu'un récit, une suite de moments restitués. Ils se détachent sur le fond d'une réalité impossible à imaginer pour ceux qui ne l'ont pas vécue. Charlotte Delbo évoque les souffrances subies et parvient à les porter à un degré d'intensité au-delà duquel il ne reste que l'inconscience ou la mort. Elle n'a pas voulu raconter son histoire, non plus que celle de ses compagnes ; à peine parfois des prénoms. Car il n'est plus de place en ces lieux pour l'individu. « Une voix qui chuchote, déchirante. Un chuchotement à fleur de vie et d'horreur. Cette voix une fois entendue vous obsède, ne vous quitte plus. Je ne connais pas d'œuvre comparable à celle de Charlotte Delbo, sinon Guernica, sinon le film Nuit et brouillard, même pudeur, même déchirure, même atroce tendresse, chez cette femme, chez Alain Resnais. Cette douloureuse et bouleversante incantation est de ces livres rares qui laissent soudain le lecteur en pays étranger à lui-même. » (François Bott, L'Express). Auschwitz et après, aux Éditions de Minuit : I. Aucun de nous ne reviendra (1970), II. Une connaissance inutile (1970), III. Mesure de nos jours (1971).

Aucun de nous ne reviendra: Auschwitz et après I (1)

MINUIT

in-12, broché, 213 pp. Edition originale. Dos un peu usé en coiffes. Bon état.

Mesure de nos jours: Auschwitz et après III (3)

Le convoi du 24 janvier

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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Auschwitz and After

Auschwitz and After

Auschwitz and After

None of Us Will Return (English and French Edition)

Days and Memory

Days and Memory

Convoy To Auschwitz: Women of the French Resistance (Women's Life Writings from Around the World)

Aucun de nous ne reviendra: Auschwitz et après I (1)

Mesure de nos jours: Auschwitz et après III (3)

Le convoi du 24 janvier