The final program
of our 27th Annual Holocaust Memorial Program at Oregon State University
featured an individual who has been described as "the chronicler of the
Polish Jews." Himself a survivor, Henryk Grynberg is best known as an
author of several distinguished works of fiction and non-fiction dealing with
the Holocaust in Poland. His writings have won a number of major awards. An
early novel, The Jewish War, tells of his experiences during the war: the
deaths of many members of his family, including his father, and the narrow
escapes of his mother and himself. The sequel, Victory, which follows him
through several years after the war, was in 2000 listed among the "One
Hundred Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature."A more recent work,
Drohobycz, Drohobycz, won the Koret Jewish Book Award.
In his appearance on
April 11, Grynberg discussed, in terms of his own career, the difficulties
and importance of "writing documentary prose on the Holocaust and
post-Holocaust trauma." victims. His writing is motivated by a desire to
tell the stories of those who did not live to tell them themselves. Of such
victims he has written, "I search for them, I persuade them, and
sometimes they return in order to exist a little on my lonely pages."
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