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PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-101250290538
ISBN-139781250290533
eBay Product ID (ePID)16060617662
Product Key Features
Book TitleCold Crematorium : Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
TopicHolocaust, Asia / General, Jewish
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorJózsef Debreczeni
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-027451
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"A valuable, measured, authoritative work. The author doesn't gush; he can see and make seen, he dramatizes adroitly, he knows his way around literary devices to enhance the overall effect, and he weaves a series of fine, psychological observations into his story." --Gábor Tüskés, Director of the Institute for Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences "Devastating in the simplicity of its language, Debreczeni's book is of immense eyewitness historical value and one of the greatest pieces of lost Holocaust literature from behind the newly descending Iron Curtain." --Steven L. Ossad, award-winning author of Omar Nelson Bradley: America's GI General "An important book...Debreczeni writes precisely, rich in detail, vividly and suggestively." --Ilma Rakusa , award-winning Swiss writer and translator "Debreczeni's book is not only an epic of a human Golgotha, nor only an illustration of all forms of depravity and debasement. It is certainly that and more, but also a painful cry and dark warning to all humankind." --Ivan Ivanji , Daily Paper ( Novi Sad ) "Always present in this book--even behind the most mundane descriptions--are living beings, which, once visualized, even if illuminated for only a second, cannot be forgotten." -- Új Könyvek (Budapest), "József Debreczeni was a journalist and a poet and he brings the skills of both to this remarkable work. Cold Crematorium will awe you with the acuity of its observations and the precision and beauty of its language. It should be read by everyone wishing to understand the cruelty and barbarism of the Shoah, but also the indomitable spirit of its survivors." --Ehud Barak, Former Prime Minister of Israel " Cold Crematorium is an indispensable work of literature, and a historical document of unsurpassed importance. It should be required reading." --Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated "A valuable, measured, authoritative work. The author doesn't gush; he can see and make seen, he dramatizes adroitly, he knows his way around literary devices to enhance the overall effect, and he weaves a series of fine, psychological observations into his story." --Gábor Tüskés, Director of the Institute for Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences "Devastating in the simplicity of its language, Debreczeni's book is of immense eyewitness historical value and one of the greatest pieces of lost Holocaust literature from behind the newly descending Iron Curtain." --Steven L. Ossad, award-winning author of Omar Nelson Bradley: America's GI General "With the exception of the work of Primo Levi, I do not know of a nonfiction book on the Holocaust as powerful as this." --Géza Röhrig, writer, lead actor in the Oscar-winning film Son of Saul "An important book! Debreczeni writes precisely, rich in detail, vividly, and suggestively...At times I had to interrupt my reading, as I was so shaken." --Ilma Rakusa, author and translator, Swiss Book Award winner "Debreczeni's book is not only an epic of a human Golgotha, nor only an illustration of all forms of depravity and debasement. It is certainly that and more, but also a painful cry and dark warning to all humankind." --Ivan Ivanji , Daily Paper ( Novi Sad ) "Always present in this book--even behind the most mundane descriptions--are living beings, which, once visualized, even if illuminated for only a second, cannot be forgotten." -- Új Könyvek (Budapest), "József Debreczeni was a journalist and a poet and he brings the skills of both to this remarkable work. Cold Crematorium will awe you with the acuity of its observations and the precision and beauty of its language. It should be read by everyone wishing to understand the cruelty and barbarism of the Shoah, but also the indomitable spirit of its survivors." --Ehud Barak, Former Prime Minister of Israel " Cold Crematorium is an indispensable work of literature, and an historical document of unsurpassed importance. It should be required reading." --Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated "A valuable, measured, authoritative work. The author doesn't gush; he can see and make seen, he dramatizes adroitly, he knows his way around literary devices to enhance the overall effect, and he weaves a series of fine, psychological observations into his story." --Gábor Tüskés, Director of the Institute for Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences "Devastating in the simplicity of its language, Debreczeni's book is of immense eyewitness historical value and one of the greatest pieces of lost Holocaust literature from behind the newly descending Iron Curtain." --Steven L. Ossad, award-winning author of Omar Nelson Bradley: America's GI General "With the exception of the work of Primo Levi, I do not know of a nonfiction book on the Holocaust as powerful as this." --Géza Röhrig, writer, lead actor in the Oscar-winning film Son of Saul "An important book! Debreczeni writes precisely, rich in detail, vividly, and suggestively...At times I had to interrupt my reading, as I was so shaken." --Ilma Rakusa, author and translator, Swiss Book Award winner "Debreczeni's book is not only an epic of a human Golgotha, nor only an illustration of all forms of depravity and debasement. It is certainly that and more, but also a painful cry and dark warning to all humankind." --Ivan Ivanji , Daily Paper ( Novi Sad ) "Always present in this book--even behind the most mundane descriptions--are living beings, which, once visualized, even if illuminated for only a second, cannot be forgotten." -- Új Könyvek (Budapest), "A valuable, measured, authoritative work. The author doesn't gush; he can see and make seen, he dramatizes adroitly, he knows his way around literary devices to enhance the overall effect, and he weaves a series of fine, psychological observations into his story." --Gábor Tüskés, Director of the Institute for Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences "Devastating in the simplicity of its language, Debreczeni's book is of immense eyewitness historical value and one of the greatest pieces of lost Holocaust literature from behind the newly descending Iron Curtain." --Steven L. Ossad, award-winning author of Omar Nelson Bradley: America's GI General, "A valuable, measured, authoritative work. The author doesn't gush; he can see and make seen, he dramatizes adroitly, he knows his way around literary devices to enhance the overall effect, and he weaves a series of fine, psychological observations into his story." --Gábor Tüskés, Director of the Institute for Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences "Devastating in the simplicity of its language, Debreczeni's book is of immense eyewitness historical value and one of the greatest pieces of lost Holocaust literature from behind the newly descending Iron Curtain." --Steven L. Ossad, award-winning author of Omar Nelson Bradley: America's GI General "With the exception of the work of Primo Levi, I do not know of a nonfiction book on the Holocaust as powerful as this." --Géza Röhrig, writer, lead actor in the Oscar-winning film Son of Saul "An important book...Debreczeni writes precisely, rich in detail, vividly and suggestively." --Ilma Rakusa , award-winning Swiss writer and translator "Debreczeni's book is not only an epic of a human Golgotha, nor only an illustration of all forms of depravity and debasement. It is certainly that and more, but also a painful cry and dark warning to all humankind." --Ivan Ivanji , Daily Paper ( Novi Sad ) "Always present in this book--even behind the most mundane descriptions--are living beings, which, once visualized, even if illuminated for only a second, cannot be forgotten." -- Új Könyvek (Budapest)
Dewey Decimal940.5318092
SynopsisNational Jewish Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024 A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time--from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni "As immediate a confrontation of the horrors of the camps as I've ever encountered. It's also a subtle if startling meditation on what it is to attempt to confront those horrors with words...Debreczeni has preserved a panoptic depiction of hell, at once personal, communal and atmospheric." -- New York Times "A treasure...Debreczeni's memoir is a crucial contribution to Holocaust literature, a book that enlarges our understanding of 'life' in Auschwitz." -- Wall Street Journal "A literary diamond...A holocaust memoir worthy of Primo Levi." -- The Times of London József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go left, his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the "lucky" ones, he was sent to the right, which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in a series of camps, ending in the "Cold Crematorium"--the so-called hospital of the forced labor camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work awaited execution. But as Soviet and Allied troops closed in on the camps, local Nazi commanders--anxious about the possible consequences of outright murder--decided to leave the remaining prisoners to die in droves rather than sending them directly to the gas chambers. Debreczeni recorded his experiences in Cold Crematorium , one of the harshest, most merciless indictments of Nazism ever written. This haunting memoir, rendered in the precise and unsentimental style of an accomplished journalist, is an eyewitness account of incomparable literary quality. The subject matter is intrinsically tragic, yet the author's evocative prose, sometimes using irony, sarcasm, and even acerbic humor, compels the reader to imagine human beings in circumstances impossible to comprehend intellectually. First published in Hungarian in 1950, it was never translated into a world language due to McCarthyism, Cold War hostilities and antisemitism. More than 70 years later, this masterpiece that was nearly lost to time will be available in 15 languages, finally taking its rightful place among the greatest works of Holocaust literature.
LC Classification NumberDS135.H93D43 2024
