A Wall of Two

Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond

Ilona Karmel author Henia Karmel author Warren Niesluchowski translator Arie A Galles translator Fanny Howe editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:14th Sep '07

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Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Krakow ghetto. These remarkable poems were written during that time. The sisters wrote the poems on worksheets stolen from the factories where they worked by day and hid them in their clothing. During what she thought were the last days of her life, Henia entrusted the poems to a cousin who happened to pass her in the forced march at the end of the war. The cousin gave them to Henia's husband in Krakow, who would not locate and reunite with his wife for another six months. This is the first English publication of these extraordinary poems. Fanny Howe's deft adaptations preserve their freshness and innocence while making them entirely compelling. They are presented with a biographical introduction that conveys the powerful story of the sisters' survival from capture to freedom in 1946.

"A stirring collection of poems." -- Robert Leiter Jewish Exponent "A remarkable unified body of survivors' words." Jewish Book World "Nothing can better describe the message of this moving collection than the authors' 'preface': 'These poems... form one cry only: 'Remember'." European Legacy

ISBN: 9780520251366

Dimensions: 203mm x 152mm x 13mm

Weight: 227g

158 pages