“Auschwitz. A Monograph of the Human”. Part 1. Loneliness

The book ‘Auschwitz. A Monograph on the Human’ is the first of its kind in the world to try to depict human emotions within the reality of Auschwitz camp. Its author, Museum Director Dr. Piotr Cywiński, draws on fragments of memoirs and testimonies from more than 450 Survivors. It is the words of these direct witnesses that form the basis of this reflection on the human condition amid the process of dehumanization at the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.
Part 1. Loneliness
Read by: Grey Stafford
Adaptation for the podcast: Agnieszka Juskowiak-Sawicka
Music: JivexMusic
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Testimonies and memoirs used into the podcast:
Helena Dunicz Niwińska (84118), Account in: Agnieszka Dauksza, „Klub Auschwitz i inne kluby”, Gdańsk, 2016, p. 55.
Lily Suser (n.n.) “Lili’s Story. My Memory of the Holocaust” (Colorado Springs, CO: Lili
Susser, 1998), pp. 71-72. The quote of a seven-year-old girl form Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 1944.
Minsky Sender (55082), “The Cage”, p. 169.
Krystyna Żywulska (55908), “I Survived Auschwitz”, p. 22.
Saba Feniger (n.n.), “Short Stories”, p. 97.
Shlomo Venezia (182727), “Inside the Gas Chambers”, p. 47.
Rudolf Vrba (44070), “I Escaped From Auschwitz” (Fort Lee: Barricade Books, 2002), p. 150.
Max Eisen (A-9892), “By Chance Alone”, p. 82.
Eugenia Kurzelowa (37574), Account in: Testimonies, vol. 36, p. 104.
Tadeusz Sobolewicz (23053), „But I Survived”, p. 77.
Charlotte Delbo (31661), “None of Us Will Return”, p. 50.
Raya Kagan (7984), “Des femmes au bureau de l’enfer”, p. 99.
Primo Levi (174517), “If This Is a Man”, p. 35.
Sim Kessel (130665), “Hanged at Auschwitz”, p. 81.
Rudolf Vrba (44070), “I Escaped From Auschwitz”, p. 116.
Mieczysław Bednarski (30951), „W szponach Gestapo”, p. 114.
Charlotte Delbo (31661), “None of Us Will Return”, p. 71.
Michał Ziółkowski (1055), „Byłem od początku w Auschwitz” (Gdańsk: Marpress, 2007),
p. 24. Mentioned in this quote are Jan Światłowski (1057) and Mieczysław Wojciechowski (1061).
Berndt Abraham (107783), “No Graves to Visit. A Survivor Remember at Last”, [n.d.] 1994, p. 13.
Mieczysława Chylińska (44685), “Działania SS w Brzezince przeciw węzłom społeczno-emocjonalnym więźniów,” Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim (1986), p. 155.
Stanisław Sattler (68652), “Prisoner of 68 Months”, p. 79.
Victor Frankl (119104), “Man’s Search For Meaning”, p. 61.
Tadeusz Sobolewicz (23053), “But I Survived”, p. 146.
Zofia Kossak (64491), “Z otchłani”, p. 84-85.
Ana Novac (17587), “The Beautiful Days of My Youth: Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow” (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1997), p. 37.
Camille Touboul (72420), “Le plus long des chemins. De Marseille a Auschwitz” (Nice: Losagne, 1998), p. 67.
Władysław Bartoszewski (4427), “Mój Auschwitz”, p. 41.
Henryk Matuszewski (5860), Account in: Testimonies, vol. 22, p. 17.
Samuel Pisar (B-1713), “Of Blood and Hope” (New York: Macmillan, 1982), pp. 56-57.
Halina Birenbaum (48693), “Hope Is the Last to Die”, trans. David Welsh (Oświęcim:
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2016), p. 135.