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Holocaust Literature MAGILL’S C H O I C E Holocaust Literature Volume 1 The Accident Letters and Papers from Prison Edited by John K. Roth Claremont McKenna College SALEM PRESS, INC. Pasadena, California Hackensack, New Jersey Cover photo: © iStockphoto.com/Jason Walton Copyright © 2008, by Salem Press, Inc. All rights in this book are reserved. No part of this work may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews or in the copying of images deemed to be freely licensed or in the public domain. For information address the publisher, Salem Press, Inc., P.O. Box 50062, Pasadena, California 91115. The paper used in these volumes conforms to the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1992 (R1997). Essays originally appeared in Magill’s Literary Annual (1990-2007), Masterplots, Revised Second Edition (1996), Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition (2000), Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series (1987), Masterplots II: Christian Literature (2008), Masterplots II: Drama Series, Revised Edition (2004), Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series (1993), Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction Series (1991), Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Literature Series Supplement (1997), Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series (1989), Masterplots II: Poetry Series, Revised Edition (2002), Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition (2004), Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series (1995), Masterplots II: World Fiction Series (1987), and World Philosophers and Their Works (2000). New material has been added. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Holocaust literature / edited by John K. Roth. v. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-58765-375-9 (set : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-58765-376-6 (vol. 1 : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-58765-377-3 (vol. 2 : alk. paper) 1. Holocaust, Jewish (19391945), in literature. I. Roth, John K. PN56.H55H655 2008 809’.93358405318—dc22 2007051349 printed in canada Contents Contents Publisher’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Editor’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Nazi Concentration Camps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi Holocaust Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii Complete List of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxix The Accident—Elie Wiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 After Auschwitz—Richard L. Rubenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Albert Speer—Gitta Sereny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 All Rivers Run to the Sea—Elie Wiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 And the Sea Is Never Full—Elie Wiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 “The Angel of History”—Carolyn Forché . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Anya—Susan Fromberg Schaeffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 At the Mind’s Limits—Jean Améry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Auschwitz and After—Charlotte Delbo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Austerlitz—W. G. Sebald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 “Babii Yar”—Yevgeny Yevtushenko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Badenheim 1939—Aharon Appelfeld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Constantine’s Sword—James Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .