Historian Otto Dov Kulka has dedicated his life to studying and writing about Nazism and the Holocaust. Until now he has always set to one side his personal experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz. Breaking years of silence, Kulka brings together the personal and historical, in a devastating, at [...]
Otto Dov Kulka's memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the Holocaust. It is the winner of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2014. As a child, the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent [...]
Otto Dov Kulka's Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, translated by Ralph Mandel, is a memoir of astounding literary and emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the Holocaust and a childhood spent in Auschwitz. As a child the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was [...]
Otto Dov Kulka sändes som barn till Theresienstadt och Auschwitz. Han levde med sin familj i en särskild uppvisningsgrupp som tilläts vissa privilegier och ett litet mått av frihet. Uppvisningsgrupper var lägerledningarnas sätt att klara de kontroller som utfördes av Röda Korset. Men efter s[...]