May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912-1974). In "Those Who Didn't Survive," Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland with great flair and rich anthropological detail, rendering a haunting collective portrait of an annihilated community. "The Fugitives" vividly charts the confusion and terror of the early days of World War II in the industrial city of Lódz and elsewhere. In the final memoir, "From Agony to Life," Bryks tells of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps. Taken together, the triptych takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey from Hasidic life before the Holocaust to the chaos of the early days of war and then to the horrors of Nazi captivity. This translation by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub brings the extraordinary memoirs of an important Yiddish writer to English-language readers for the first time.
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Rachmil Bryks was author of seven Yiddish-language books and contributed extensively to the Yiddish press.
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is a poet, writer, and translator, and is the recipient of the 2012 Yiddish Book Center Translation Prize and the 20142017 Modern Language Association's Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies.
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May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912-1974). In "Those Who Didn't Survive," Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland with great flair and rich anthropological detail, rendering a haunting collective portrait of an annihilated community. "The Fugitives" vividly charts the confusion and terror of the early days of World War II in the industrial city of Lódz and elsewhere. In the final memoir, "From Agony to Life," Bryks tells of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps. Taken together, the triptych takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey from Hasidic life before the Holocaust to the chaos of the early days of war and then to the horrors of Nazi captivity. This translation by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub brings the extraordinary memoirs of an important Yiddish writer to English-language readers for the first time.
Inhalt
- Those Who Didn't Survive
- The Fugitives
A Few Observations by Berl Kagan
1.This Is How It All Began
2.Fugitives
3.A Gas Nightmare
4.I Take Flight
5.Warsaw Bound
6.My Return to ód
7.In German Captivity
8.Theft, Torment, Murders
9.We're Transferred to Germany
10. We're Taken from the CampBut Where?
11. In a Camp Near Kraków
12. In Camp Kobiezshin
13.Freedom Gained
14.In Skarysko-KamiennaNew Troubles
15.In Koluszki
16.We Arrive in ód
17.At Home with Mordecai Gebirtig
18.Visit to Josef Wulf
- From Agony to Life
2.Transport to Germany
3.In Other Concentration Camps
4.The Wild Beast
5.The First Weeks
6.Laundry Day
7.A Gallows
8.New Germans, New Troubles
9. Episodes and Characters
10.Return to Camp Braunschweig
11.In Camp Wattenstadt
12.From Switzerland to a Death Camp
13.We're Liberated
Papa, As I Remember Him by Bella Bryks-Klein
Rachmil Bryks: an Appreciation by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Dramatis Personae
Glossary
Translator's Notes
Translator's Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Translator
About the Author's Daughter