Written by a member of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and th

Charlotte Delbo, a non-Jew sent to Auschwitz for being a member of the French resistance movement, recalls the poems, vignettes, and meditations that fed her co

In 1943, Charlotte Delbo and 229 other women were deported to a station with no name, which they later learned was Auschwitz. Arrested for resisting the Nazi oc

The horrors of a concentration camp are described in free verse and rhythmic prose. Through the personal experiences of Charlotte Delbo, the reader enters a wor

Collectively, these stories are a powerful and stirring reminder of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.