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It’s an unusual Holocaust book because it was written soon after the war by an adult journalist and focuses not on death camps but on the slave-labor camps in which he toiled.

The translation of Auschwitz survivor Jozsef Debreczeni’s memoir from 1950 is a crucial addition to the number of important books about the Holocaust.

David Herman pays homage to an unforgettable Holocaust memoir

Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni; I Seek a Kind Person by Julian Borger; Lovers in Auschwitz by Karen Blankfeld; and One Life by Barbara Winton

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The superbly human, harsh and uncompromising story of a journalist and poet's survival in ‘the land of Auschwitz’

Do humans ever learn from the past? When all the witnesses have died or dispersed, it can seem dreamlike, almost unreal. Even the last century’s greatest horror isn’t immune to this phenomenon. To that extent, it’s good that József Debreczeni’s Cold Crematorium, published in Hungarian in 1950, is only now published in English: in the timeliest possible way, it succeeds in restoring the Holocaust’s reality.

Auf dem Areal des alten Krematoriums im Luzerner Friedental werden im September Aufführungen der Luzerner Theatergruppe «Fetter Vetter & Oma Hommage» in Kooperation mit dem Kleintheater zu sehen sein.