Posted in General, tagged anti-semitism, Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Authors, Birkenau, blankets, camp, Cluj, crematory, Deportation, deportees, Female Authors, female writers, Gas Chamber, Genocide, German Nazis, Germans, Gestapo, Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust Testament, Holocaust Testimony, Holocaust Witness, Holocaust/Genocide, internees, Jew, Jew Wishes, Jewish, Jewish Culture, Jewish Life, Jewish Religion, Jewish Society, Jews, Jews in Auschwitz, Jews in Birkenau, Judaism, Lengyel, margarine, memoirs, Nazi, Non-Fiction, Olga Lengyel, personal accountings, personal history, personal Holocaust history, Religion, Shoah, World War II, Writers on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Five Chimneys, by Olga Lengyel is an incredible and intense personal eyewitness accounting and Holocaust memoir. Five Chimneys was published in 1947, in English, two years after liberation, when Olga Lengyel’s mind and memories were still, fresh regarding the events she witnessed while a prisoner in Auschwitz.
The title, Five Chimneys, stems from the [...]
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A Tranquil Star by Primo Levi
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged A Tranquil Star, anti-semitism, Books, descriptive language, family dynamics, family relationships, fiction, fiction short stories, fiction stories, Italian Jewish Authors, Italian Jewish writers, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Authors, Jewish Italian Writers, Jewish Writers, Jews, metaphysical commentary stories, metaphysical stories, mountain hiking, prewar short stories, primitive life, Primo Levi, Primo Levi short stories, Primo Levi's A Tranquil Star, Religion, short stories, short stories on universe, short story commentary, short story fiction, stories on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Tranquil Star – Unpublished Stories, by Primo Levi is quite the collection of seventeen short stories within a 164 page count. Levi is well-known for his Holocaust memoirs, but in this book of short stories, he goes beyond the Holocaust, into the world of the his deep imagination, bringing us parables of the metaphysical [...]
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