Love in the Flames by Holocaust survivor K. Tzetnik (the pen name of Yehiel Dinur). Published by Sifriyat Tarmil. First edition, first printing. Israel, 1976. A copy dedicated and signed by the author with his real name, “Y. Dinur” – with a: “To Rafi, Y. Dinur, 20.6.78.”
When testifying in the Eichmann trial, K. Tzetnik stated that he did not see himself as an author writing literature, but rather as someone recording the chronicles of the “Auschwitz planet, ” whose inhabitants had no names. The book focuses on a love story set against the backdrop of the Holocaust’s horrors, narrating the story of two concentration camp prisoners struggling with unimaginable suffering while trying to preserve their love amidst the inferno. In this work, K. Tzetnik graphically and powerfully portrays the harsh reality, raising profound moral and emotional questions about humanity in inhuman conditions.
Yehiel De-Nur (Feiner) [1909-2001] was a survivor of the Nazi extermination camps who wrote extensively about the Holocaust, best known for his “Salamandra, chronicle of a Jewish family in the twentieth century”. De-Nur was known by the pen name “K. Tzetnik” – a term meaning “concentration camp prisoner”. De-Nur began writing about the Holocaust shortly after surviving the death camps while staying at a British army camp near Naples, Italy. He gave the manuscript of his first book to Eliyahu Goldenberg, a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, to have it published in Israel. De-Nur did not include the author’s name, explaining to the soldier: “Those who went to the crematoria wrote this book! Write their name: K. Tzetnik”. This became his literary name thereafter. De-Nur is mainly remembered for his collapse minutes after beginning his testimony at the Eichmann trial. After falling to the ground while describing the horrors of the Holocaust, the judges had to adjourn the session and De-Nur was removed from the courtroom on a stretcher and hospitalized for six months. His testimony and the incident in court, especially being the first time his identity was revealed to the Israeli and global public as the man behind K. Tzetnik, became one of the defining symbols of the Eichmann trial that came to characterize the memory of the Holocaust era. De-Nur authored many books dealing with the memory of the Holocaust.
112 p. Very good condition.
