Re: [Cz-L] The Genesis of Paul Celan's "Todesfuge"

 Dear Mimi,
here is the text from Wikipedia about Leon Blum:

In April 1943, the occupying Government had Blum imprisoned in
Buchenwald in the section reserved for high-ranking prisoners. His
future wife, Janot Blum, chose to come to the camp voluntarily to live
with him inside the camp. As the Allied armies approached Buchenwald,
he was transferred to Dachau, near Munich, and in late April 1945,
together with other notable inmates, to Tyrol. In the last weeks of
the war the Nazi regime gave orders that he was to be
executed[citation needed], but the local authorities decided not to
obey them. Blum was rescued by Allied troops in May 1945. While in
prison he wrote his best known work, the essay À l'échelle Humaine
("On a human scale").

Sincerely,
Galina.

2014/1/7 Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>:
> Leon Blum was not just "a man", he was the elected prime minister of France
> during the years 1936-37.
> He was the first Socialist, and the first Jewish premier of France,
> presiding over the Popular Front coalition government.
> He died in 1950, therefore I find it hard to believe
> that he was interred in Buchenwald.
>
> Mimi
> On Jan 6, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Galina Kharaz wrote:
>
>> [Please post in Plain Text in the future --thanks]
>>
>> Dear Edgar,
>> I compared the texts of articles by Konstantin Simonov in the newspaper
>> and=
>> in
>> the brochure, which Josif had sent.
>> These texts are almost identical, except for an episode about a man who
>> cal=
>> led
>> himself Leon Blum. Simonov wrote later that it was a mistake, and that
>> Leon
>> Blum was at that time in Buchenwald camp. This is probably why this
>> episode=
>> was
>> excluded from the text of the brochure.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Galina.
>>
-snip-

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