Polish Literature and the Holocaust: Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942-1947

by Rachel Feldhay Brenner

Book Overview

In this pathbreaking study of responses to the Holocaust in wartime and postwar Polish literature, Rachel Feldhay Brenner explores seven writers' compulsive need to share their traumatic experience of witness with the world. The Holocaust put the ideological convictions of Kornel Filipowicz, J?zef Mackiewicz, Tadeusz Borowski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Leopold Buczkowski, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Stefan Otwinowski to the ultimate test. Tragically, witnessing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B07Z1HXV9K
• ISBN13: 9780810139800
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"