{"title":"At Home with the Hitlers. The Hitlers’ Kitchen (Doma u Hitlerů. Hitlerovic kuchyň)","authors":"Doma u Hitlerů, Hitlerovic kuchyň","doi":"10.1515/9783110671056-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671056-005","url":null,"abstract":"About the Author: Arnošt Goldflam (1946) comes from a Czech-Austrian-Polish Jewish family, his parents survived the Holocaust. He is known as a playwright, theatre director, actor, novelist writing for children and adults. In 1977, he graduated from Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (Brno). In 2007, Goldflam was appointed professor at the Theatre Academies in Prague and Brno. Jewish topics and the Holocaust occupy an important role in his works. For instance, he adapted several of Franz Kafka’s works for theatre (The Metamorphosis, 1989; The Trial, 1989; The Judgment, 1991). He also took part as a screenwriter in two TV documentary films which contained his interviews with Czech, Slovakian and German Jews who had emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Israel, Lost Home (Ztracený domov) and Found Home (Domov nalezený), both 1996.","PeriodicalId":425657,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127560789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
rzucony umarłym, Bogdan Wojdowski, H. Grynberg, H. Krall
{"title":"Bread for the Departed (Chleb rzucony umarłym)","authors":"rzucony umarłym, Bogdan Wojdowski, H. Grynberg, H. Krall","doi":"10.1515/9783110671056-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671056-014","url":null,"abstract":"About the Author: Bogdan Wojdowski was born into the Jewish family of an upholsterer and carpenter in 1930 in Warsaw. Due to the war and Holocaust he changed his first name from Dawid to Bogdan. Wojdowski belongs to the main group of witnesses of the Holocaust in Poland, having spent three years in the Warsaw Ghetto. He survived as a child (like Henryk Grynberg, Hanna Krall or Wilhelm Dichter) when he was at the age of twelve placed on the Aryan side of Warsaw outside of the ghetto. Wojdowski graduated from the Department of Polish Studies at Warsaw University, worked as a reporter, literary critic, essayist and teacher. He was the co-editor of the Polish weekly Przegląd Kulturalny (1954–1956), co-operated as a reporter for the weekly Wieś (1951–1954), and the Jewish paper Fołks-Sztyme (1971–1974) in Yiddish and Polish. Wojdowski, although generally considered as a part of Generation ’56 or Współczesność (named after the cultural magazine of the same name), denied belonging to any literary group or programme. He made his debut with the drama Ramsynit or the Egypt Parable (Ramsynit, czyli przypowieść egipska, 1959), followed by theatre critiques, and short stories (Job’s Vacation [Wakacje Hioba], 1962). In his novel Bread for the Departed (Polish book of the year 1971) he processed his traumatic experiences in the ghetto. Having achieved international acclaim, the book was translated into English in 1998 with the euphemistic title Bread for the Departed (literally “Bread Tossed to the Dead”) belongs to best known literary works on the Holocaust. Most of Wojdowski’s prose is more or less directly devoted to his wartime experiences. After committing suicide on the fifty-first anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19th, 1994 he was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw.","PeriodicalId":425657,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125569193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elegy for 77,297 Victims (Žalozpěv za 77 297 obětí)","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110671056-033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671056-033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":425657,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116933554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More Gas, Comrades! (Więcej gazu, Kameraden!)","authors":"Comrades Więcej, gazu, Kameraden, Krystian Piwowarski","doi":"10.1515/9783110671056-069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671056-069","url":null,"abstract":"Content and Interpretation The collection consists of fifteen stories about World War II and the Holocaust seen through the eyes of its perpetrators and accomplices. While an exact time and place are not given, most of the stories take place in Nazi-occupied Poland. Because it lacks a thoroughly prepared timeline, Piwowarski’s literary representations seem disconnected from history, and the author plays liberally with the relationship between fact and fiction. In the afterword The Imperative of Remembrance, Piwowarski described his literary agenda with regard to the commemoration of the Holocaust. It arises, he argues, from a need to fill the gaps in fiction, which is unable to sufficiently grasp the issue of the Holocaust. What is needed in particular is to develop a perspective that approaches this issue from the outside, without recourse to direct experience. These beliefs are connected to the writer’s concern about the general lack of knowledge concerning the Holocaust, and his ideas on how literature should be written in order for remembrance to continue (Piwowarski, 2012, pp. 267–269). In the opening storyWomen in the Meadow and I, a Nazi gives air to his erotic fantasies. Train conductors in A Misunderstanding mock Jews who are dying while being transported to camps:","PeriodicalId":425657,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117243863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Old Man and Fate (Starý pán a osud)","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110671056-073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671056-073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":425657,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130030634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Flytrap Factory (Fabryka muchołapek)","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110671056-042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671056-042","url":null,"abstract":"Content and Interpretation In The Flytrap Factory, Bart draws on his interest in Jewish Lodz, which he also made the subject of several of his documentary films, including Eva R. (1998), Hiob (2000), and Radegast (2008). The writer has spoken in interviews about the many years he spent in preparation for writing the novel, which would eventually be published during a period of growing interest in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, alongside such titles as I Used To Be a Secretary to Rumkowski.Memoirs by Etka Daum by Elżbieta Cherezińska (2008) and The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg (2009, first published in Polish in 2011). The Flytrap Factory opens with the story of its narrator, who is also a writer and screenwriter, as he arrives on the idea to make a film about Western European Jews forced into the Litzmanstadt Ghetto. See also František Kafka’s → Christmas Legend from the Ghetto. He describes the tensions that result from the chance meeting of Eastern and Western Jewish cultures, particularly with regard to the varying degrees of wealth and poverty, literacy and illiteracy, and more or less developed cultural backgrounds. The protagonist also tries to learn about the real or probable fate of famous Jews, such as Franz Kafka (what would happen if the writer was in the Lodz Ghetto and transported from there to the death camp in Chełmno) and his sisters (this plot was also developed in Radegast, and is documented with photos of contemporary memorials of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto). All his efforts are aimed at filming a documentary with a transnational appeal, a film that might interest viewers beyond his domestic Polish audience. Lacking sufficient funding, he is compelled to accept money","PeriodicalId":425657,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130263160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trap with a Green Fence (Treblinka, slovo jak z dětské říkanky)","authors":"dětské říkanky, Richard Glazar","doi":"10.1515/9783110671056-105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671056-105","url":null,"abstract":"About the Author: RichardGlazar (1920–1997), was born in Prague in a Czech Jewish family as Richard Goldschmid. He started studying economics until Czech universities were closed in November of 1939. Then he found a job in agriculture in the countryside. That did not save him from deportation to Theresienstadt first, and then to Treblinka, where hewas assigned towork.He tookpart in the TreblinkaUprising and succeeded to escape together with Karel Unger.While walking across Poland theymade up a story of a false identity in case they would be captured. Their story was believable enough to be sent as forced labourers to a steel industry inMannheim,Germany. They remained there until the liberation. After the endof thewarGlazar returned to Prague and reunitedwith hismother. All of his other relatives perishedduring thewar.Hewent back to study economics and languages. He married and worked as a civil servant at a ministry. During Stalinist antisemitism (Slánský trial) 1951–1953, he quit his job and went to work in the steel industry again. In the 1960shebecamea librarian in theCzechoslovakAcademyof Sciences and published two books about urbanism. After the Prague Spring and during the Russian invasion in 1968 he fled to Switzerland and took a copy of the finished manuscript of his bookTrapwithaGreenFencewithhim.Hebecameknown throughhis appearance in the documentary Shoah by Claude Lanzmann. In 1963 and 1971 he testified against Nazi perpetrators in Treblinka trials in Düsseldorf. In the 1990s he often spoke in public about his experiences in the concentration camp Treblinka and at one such lecture he was asked to publish his book. In 1995 he returned to Prague. After the death of his wife he committed suicide due to his traumatic experiences from the war.","PeriodicalId":425657,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction","volume":"303 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116583594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Money from Hitler (Peníze od Hitlera)","authors":"Radka Denemarková","doi":"10.1515/9783110671056-068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671056-068","url":null,"abstract":"Translations: Polish (Pieniądze od Hitlera, 2008); English (Money from Hitler, 2009); German (Ein herrlicher Flecken Erde, 2009); Hungarian (Hitler pénze, 2009); Slovenian (Denar od Hitlerja, 2010); Italian (I soldi di Hitler, 2012); Bulgarian (Pari ot Chitler, 2013); Spanish (El dinero de Hitler, 2015); Macedonian (Parite od Chitler, 2016); Swedish (Pengar från Hitler, 2016); Serbian (Novac od Hitlera, 2018); Croatian (Novac od Hitlera, 2018).","PeriodicalId":425657,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127068896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}