Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift
Angaben zur Quelle:
49,3 (1999) 307-331
Keywords:
Jacob, Heinrich Eduard,
;
Dachau (Concentration camp)
;
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
Depicts the horrors of the concentration camps, as described by authors such as Eugen Kogon, and publishes letters sent from Dachau and Buchenwald by Jacob (1889-1967), a prominent journalist and writer who was arrested in Vienna immediately after the Anschluss. Because of the harsh restrictions on correspondence, the letters do not openly mention camp conditions, but convey information by references to literary works. In his postwar writings, Jacob declared that he survived and helped others survive by telling stories and using his imagination to transport himself elsewhere, to a remembered or imagined place of wellbeing.
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