Hell of TreblinkaVasily Grossman, Martin Zwinkler, Olga Reznik
Hell of Treblinka
by Vasily Grossman, Martin Zwinkler, Olga Reznik · first published 2014
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For non-fiction, I'd add The Hell of Treblinka, by Vassily Grossman, a Red Army journalist who was one of the first to enter the death camp. One of the hardest things i've read. "It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's…
on “Brutality of Life Reading List” ↗…wonderful novel, and the only viable literary response to the Holocaust that I've read. Grossman's Writer at War is also excellent, and IMHO mandatory for anyone interested in WWII. His chapter on The Hell of Treblinka is without parallel.
on “On Tolstoy's “War and Peace”” ↗He wrote an article during the war "the hell of Treblinka", (here in Russian http://lib.ru/PROZA/GROSSMAN/trebl.txt) This article was even used as evidence of the prosecution during the Nuremberg trials (says wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Grossman)
on “Reading Grossman's “Stalingrad” and ”Life and Fate”” ↗