Necropolis /
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| Author / Creator: | Pahor, Boris. |
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| Uniform title: | Nekropola. English |
| Edition: | 1st Dalkey Archive ed. |
| Imprint: | Champaign [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2010. |
| Description: | xvi, 182 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Slovenian literature series Slovenian literature series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8121013 |
| Summary: | Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau, and Natzweiler. His fellow prisoners comprised a veritable microcosm of Europe Italians, French, Russians, Dutch, Poles, Germans. Twenty years later, when he visits a camp in the Vosges Mountains that has been preserved as a historical monument, images of his experiences come back to him: corpses being carried to the ovens; emaciated prisoners in wooden clogs and ragged, zebra-striped uniforms, struggling up the steps of a quarry or standing at roll call in the cold rain; the infirmary, reeking of dysentery and death. Necropolis is Pahor s stirring account of his attempts to provide medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps and of his coming to terms with the ineradicable guilt he feels, having survived when millions did not. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Slovenian as Nekropola by Zalozba Obzorja Maribor, 1967." |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 182 p. ; 19 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781564786111 1564786110 |
