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Charlotte Delbo

Born

in Vigneux-sur-Seine, France

August 10, 1913

Died

March 01, 1985

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Charlotte Delbo was a French writer chiefly known for her haunting memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French resistance.
Born in Vigneux-sur-Seine, Essonne near Paris, Delbo gravitated toward theater and politics in her youth, joining the French Young Communist Women's League in 1932. She met and married George Dudach two years later. Later in the decade she went to work for producer Louis Jouvet and was with his company in Buenos Aires when Wehrmacht forces invaded and occupied France in 1940.
She could have waited to return when Philippe Pétain, leader of the collaborationist Vichy regime, established special courts in 1941 to deal with members of the resistance. One sent ...more

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	Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont (Translator) 4.42 avg rating — 1,306 ratings — published 1995 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aucun de nous ne reviendra 4.34 avg rating — 1,325 ratings — published 1965 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La mesura dels nostres dies by Charlotte Delbo, Valèria Gaillard Francesch (Traducció ) 4.40 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1970 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Une connaissance inutile 4.59 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1970 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prière aux vivants pour leur pardonner d'être vivants: et autres poèmes 4.66 avg rating — 102 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ceux qui avaient choisi 3.74 avg rating — 58 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Convoy To Auschwitz: Women of the French Resistance by Charlotte Delbo, Carol Cosman (Translator), John Felstiner (Contributor) 4.28 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1966 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Qui rapportera ces paroles et autres récits inédits 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Will Carry the Word? 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Mémoire et les jours it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Auschwitz, et après (3 books)
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Valèria Gaillard Francesch (Traducció )

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“Here the sun is not the spring sun. It is the sun of eternity, a sun of the world before creation.”
― Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After

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“Five by five they walk down the street of arrivals. It is actually the street of departures but no one knows it. This is a one-way street.”
― Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After

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“ce n’est pas la fin de la nuit pour les étoiles glacées au ciel glacé
ce n’est pas la fin de la nuit
c’est l’heure où des ombres rentrent dans les murs, où d’autres ombres sortent dans la nuit
ce n’est pas la fin de la nuit
c’est la fin de mille nuits et de mille cauchemars.”
― Charlotte Delbo, Aucun de nous ne reviendra

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