Auschwitz and After

"This powerful work should soon be both widely admired and read alongside other tragic narratives of the Holocaust." —Women's Review of Books

Winner of the American Literary Translators Association AwardTranslated by Rosette C. Lamont

Written by a member of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the postwar experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes.

This second edition includes an updated and expanded introduction and new bibliography by Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer.

"I find Rosette C. Lamont's remarkable translation of Charlotte Delbo's work perceptive, delicate, and poignant—in short: exceptional." —Elie Wiesel

"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time. The superb new introduction by Lawrence L. Langer illuminates the subtlety and complexity of Delbo's meditation on memory, time, culpability, and survival, in the context of what Langer calls the 'afterdeath' of the Holocaust. Delbo's powerful trilogy belongs on every bookshelf." —Sara R. Horowitz, York University