Historian Otto Dov Kulka has dedicated his life to studying and
writing about Nazism and the Holocaust. Until now he has always set
to one side his personal experiences as a child inmate at
Auschwitz. Breaking years of silence, Kulka brings together the
personal and historical, in a devastating, at times poetic, account
of the concentration camps and the private mythology one man
constructed around his experiences.
Auschwitz is for the author a vast repository of images,
memories, and reveries: the Metropolis of Death over which rules
the immutable Law of Death. Between 1991 and 2001, Kulka made audio
recordings of these memories as they welled up, and in "Landscapes
of the Metropolis of Death" he sifts through these fragments,
attempting to make sense of them. He describes the Family Camp s
children s choir in which he and others performed Ode to Joy within
yards of the crematoria, his final, indelible parting from his
mother when the camp was liquidated, and the black stains along the
roadside during the winter death march. Amidst so much death Kulka
finds moments of haunting, almost unbearable beauty (for beauty,
too, Kulka says, is an inescapable law).
As the author maps his interior world, readers gain a new sense
of what it was to experience the Shoah from inside the camps both
at the time, and long afterward. "Landscapes of the Metropolis of
Death" is a unique and powerful experiment in how one man has tried
to understand his past, and our shared history."
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