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Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Krakow ghetto. These remarkable poems were written during that time. They are presented with a biographical introduction that conveys the powerful story of the sisters' survival from capture to freedom in 1946.

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"A stirring collection of poems." -- Robert Leiter Jewish Exponent "A remarkable unified body of survivors' words." Jewish Book World "Nothing can better describe the message of this moving collection than the authors' 'preface': 'These poems... form one cry only: 'Remember'." European Legacy

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List of Illustrations Preface: To an Unknown Reader Acknowledgments Introduction Key to Translators The Poems Afterword by Leon Wolfe Notes on the Translations About the Translators Bibliography

A Wall of Two

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    A Paperback / softback by Henia Karmel, Ilona Karmel, Arie A. Galles

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/10/2007
      ISBN13: 9780520251366, 978-0520251366
      ISBN10: 0520251369

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Krakow ghetto. These remarkable poems were written during that time. They are presented with a biographical introduction that conveys the powerful story of the sisters' survival from capture to freedom in 1946.

      Trade Review
      "A stirring collection of poems." -- Robert Leiter Jewish Exponent "A remarkable unified body of survivors' words." Jewish Book World "Nothing can better describe the message of this moving collection than the authors' 'preface': 'These poems... form one cry only: 'Remember'." European Legacy

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Preface: To an Unknown Reader Acknowledgments Introduction Key to Translators The Poems Afterword by Leon Wolfe Notes on the Translations About the Translators Bibliography

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