Auschwitz and After
by Charlotte Delbo
Arrested for her activities in the French resistance, Charlotte Delbo tells the story of her subsequent incarceration at Auschwitz.
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“She was a quite remarkable female resistance fighter in France, who was transported to Auschwitz after having to witness the murder of her husband. Of her original convoy, only 49 survived, and what I find fascinating about her account is the way she tries to convey the raw experience in little vignettes—based on her personal experience quite clearly, but in some cases trying to tell the story of other women who were on the convoy with her, and trying to memorialize those who did not survive. She agonizingly conveys aspects of her experience to those of us who have had the fortune never to have experienced such things.” Read more...
Mary Fulbrook, Historian
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