GENERAL INTRODUCTION: On Reading Holocaust Literature I THE WAY IT WAS 1. One Year In Treblinka: from the Death Camp Treblinka: A Documentary, Jankiel Wiernik, 2. from "The Good Old Days"; The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders, Kulmhof (Chelmno) Extermination Camp 3. "But Lidice is in Europe!" - from Terezin, Frankisek R. Kraus, 4. "Conversation with a Dead Man" from Wir Haben Es Gesehen, Jaques Furmanski, 5. "Voices" from Days and Memory, Charlotte Delbo, 6. "One Day in Jozefow: Initiation to Mass Murder" - from Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a CHanging World, Christopher R. Browning, 7. "Shame" - from The Drowned and the Saved,… Primo Levi, 8. "Torture" - from At the Mind's Limits, Jean Amery, 9. "A PLea for the Dead" - from Legends of Our Time, ELie Weisel, II JOURNALS AND DIARIES (Introduction) 1. "Diary of the Great Deportation" - from A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto Langer (Holocaust Anthology), Abraham Lewin, 2. "Day of Nightmare" - from Lucy S. Dawidowicz, A Holocaust Reader, Joseph Zelkowicz, 3. "Memoir" - from Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary, Avraham Tory, III FICTION (Introduction) 1. "The Key Game," "A Spring Morning" - from A Scrap of Time and Other Stories, Ida Fink 2. "Bread" - from Midstream, Isaiah Spiegel 3. "The Last Morning" - from Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust, Bernard Gotfryd 4. "The Verdict," "Friendly Meetings" - from Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land, Sara Normberg Przytyk 5. Tzili, Aharon Appelfeld 6. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" - from This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tadeusz Borowski 7. "Infinity" - from Street of Lost Brothers, Arnost Lustig 8. "The Crystal Stream" - from Ascent to Heaven, Adolf Rudnicki 9. "Lieutenant Boulanger" - from Attendance List for a Funeral, Alexander Kluge 10. "Resurrection" - from Soul of Wood, Jakov Lind 11. "The Season of the Dead" - from Beasts and Men and The Seed, Pierre Gascar IV DRAMA (Introduction) Ghetto, Joshua Sobol (Holocaust Anthology), Langer V POETRY (Introduction) 1. "War," "Faces in Swamps" (I-V), "My every breath is a curse." "How?" "Grains of Wheat," "Stalks," "Frozen Jews," "Resurrection," "Black Thorns" from A, Sutzkever; Selected Poetry and Prose "In the Cell," "For My Child," "Burnt Pearls," "Poem About A Herring," "Self-Portrait" - from Burnt Pearls; Ghetto Poems of Abraham Sutzkever, Abraham Sutzkever 2. "Autobiography," "Europe, Late'" "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car," "The Roll Call," "Testimony," "Instructions for Crossing the Border," "Draft of a Reparartions Agreement," "Footprints," "Ready for Parting" - from Points of Departure, Dan Pagis 3. "Death Fugue," "Aspen Tree," "With A Variable Key," ", Paul Celan