OTTO DOV KULKA

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 sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism and the Holocaust, but always as a discipline requiring the greatest dispassion and objectivity, with his personal story set to one side. He has nevertheless remained haunted by specific memories and images, thoughts he has been unable to shake off. The extraordinary result of this is Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death - a unique and powerful experiment in how one man has tried to understand his past (and our history). Reviews: "This is one of the most remarkable testimonies to inhumanity that I know. The deeply moving recollections of Dov Kulka's boyhood years in Auschwitz, interwoven with reflections of elegiac, poetic quality, vividly convey the horror of the death-camp, the trauma of family and friends, and the indelible imprint left on the memory of a young boy who became a distinguished historian of the Holocaust. An extraordinarily important work which needs to be read". (Sir Ian Kershaw).

Un libro de memorias de extraordinaria fuerza literaria y emocional que explora las indelebles huellas de una infancia en Auschwitz. De niño, el prestigioso historiador Otto Dov Kulka fue enviado junto con su familia al gueto de Theresienstadt, y mas tarde a Auschwitz. Tras sobrevivir al horror, ha pasado gran parte de su vida estudiando el nazismo y el Holocausto, pero siempre como una disciplina que exigia la mayor objetividad, dejando a un lado su propia historia personal. Sin embargo, durante ese tiempo los recuerdos de su infancia han permanecido alojados en su memoria, imagenes y pensamientos de los que ha sido incapaz de desprenderse. Hasta hoy. El extraordinario resultado son estas memorias profundamente conmovedoras, el testimonio poderoso y valiente de un hombre que ha querido entender su pasado y, con ello, nuestra historia.Reseñas:"Este es uno de los mas extraordinarios testimonios sobre la barbarie que conozco. Los enormemente conmovedores recuerdos de los años de infancia de Dov Kulka en Auschwitz, entretejidos con sus reflexiones de esencia elegiaca y poetica, transmiten vividamente el horror de un campo de concentracion, el trauma de la familia y los amigos, y la huella indeleble marcada en la memoria de