Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Survivors: Hungarian Jewish Poets of the Holocaust" (Thomas Ország-Land, ed. & trans.): Contents

Survivors: Hungarian Jewish Poets of the Holocaust

edited and translated by Thomas Ország-Land

Thomas Ország-Land, About Poetry and the Holocaust	10
Thomas Ország-Land, Caution	19
Jenő Heltai, Ars Poetica	20
Magda Székely, Saving the Sodomites	21
András Mezei, Roads	22
Miklós Radnóti, Deathmarch	24
Thomas Ország-Land, Epilogue	25
György Faludy, The Germans’ Mercenaries	26
Tamás Emőd, Message in a Bottle	29
Ernő Szép, The Truth	31
Miklós Radnóti, The Bull	33
Miklós Radnóti, War Diary, 1935-36	34
Tamás Emőd, Only You	38
Tamás Emőd, Distinction	39
Miklós Radnóti, The Witness	40
György Faludy, Refugee, 1940	41
Miklós Radnóti, The Third Eclogue	42
István Vas, The Colours that Day	43
Vera Szöllős, Absence	44
Eszter Forrai, Christmas	45
Éva Láng, Hungry	46
Hanna Szenes, Spark	47
György Timár, Games in the Cellar	49
Thomas Ország-Land, Ghetto Games	50
Eszter Forrai, Steps	52
Miklós Radnóti, Letter to my Wife	56
Miklós Radnóti, À La Recherche…	58
Miklós Radnóti, The Seventh Eclogue	60
Miklós Radnóti, Picture Postcards	62
Frigyes Karinthy, Struggle for Life	66
András Mezei, Grace	67
Eszter Forrai, Petals	68
András Mezei, The Survivor	69
Éva Láng, A Shout	75
György Timár, The Bomb Shelter, Afterwards	77
Dán Dalmát, Epitaph	78
Judit Tóth, Resurrection	79
András Mezei, Keepsakes	80
Magda Székely, The Pyre	81
Ágnes Gergely, Beneath Pannonia’s Sky	83
Magda Székely, Precipice	85
Éva Láng, Wandering Jews	86
Thomas Ország-Land, Meetings	89
András Mezei, The Wound of Manhattan: A Prayer For Peace	90
Thomas Ország-Land, War Correspondent	96
András Mezei, A Prophet’s Final Advice	98
Magda Székely, The Sentence	99
Thomas Ország-Land, The Name	100
Magda Székely, Tablets Of Stone	102
Thomas Ország-Land, A Birth	104
Thomas Ország-Land, The Jolly Joker of Jerusalem	105
Thomas Ország-Land, When Hatred Rules	106
Notes	107
The Poets	109
Further Reading	113

About Poetry and the Holocaust (excerpt): Consider the work of great writers like Faludy as well as Jenő Heltai, Frigyes Karinthy and Ernő Szép, much loved and admired in their native Hungary (though hardly known abroad). They could not be ignored at home—but their Holocaust poetry has been consistently treated by school teachers, editors and critics as general anti-war protest in line with the perennial pious indignation of the post-war governments of the day. Even their readers do not know that these are Holocaust poets.

SOURCE: Survivors: Hungarian Jewish Poets of the Holocaust, edited and translated by Thomas Ország-Land. Middlesborough, UK: Smokestack Books, 2014. Contents + excerpt from p. 12.

These are the poems by Miklós Radnóti in this anthology. Dates of the poems were taken from another source. An asterisk indicates that an Esperanto translation can be found on this site:

Deathmarch
The Bull
War Diary, 1935-36
The Witness
The Third Eclogue
Letter to my Wife [Aug-Sept 1944] *
À La Recherche… [17 Aug 1944] *
The Seventh Eclogue [July 1944] *
Picture Postcards [in English: 1-2, 3-4; * “Razglednica”: 31 Oct 1944]