Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni, review: pure horror
The superbly human, harsh and uncompromising story of a journalist and poet's survival in ‘the land of Auschwitz’
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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.