Yehiel Feiner

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Yehiel De-Nur during his testimony in the trial of Adolf Eichmann on June 7, 1961

Yehiel De-Nur ( Hebrew יחיאל די-נור; native of Yehiel Feiner ; born May 16, 1909 in Sosnowiec ; died July 17, 2001 in Tel Aviv ) was a Yiddish writer and survivor of the Holocaust . His works, mostly written in Hebrew, cross the line between fantasy and real events, grotesque scenes of torture, sexual perversions and cannibalism, and have also been referred to as Holocaust pulp fiction .

Life

During the Second World War he was a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp for two years .

De-Nur emigrated to Palestine (later Israel ) in 1945 and wrote several books under the pseudonym K. Tzetnik or Ka-Tzetnik 135633 , his prisoner number in Auschwitz, whereby Ka-Tzetnik (ק. צטניק) means something like " concentration camp inmate " in Yiddish . His best-known work is the novel The House of Dolls , published in 1955 , which in various German translations under the titles Höllenfahrt (Gerlingen, 1980), Das Haus der Puppen (Paris, 1960; Munich, 1995), Nazi dolls house and "Freuden -teilung ! ” (Paris, 1960) appeared in several editions. It's about a camp brothel in Auschwitz. The boundaries to fiction are fluid. The success of the book is considered to be the literary door opener for the semi-pornographic stalagim, a Nazi propaganda genre. The book is still part of the school curriculum in Israel and Israeli visitors to the memorial frequently frequent the block described. The novel was the inspiration for the band name Joy Division .

De-Nur caused a particular stir with his report on Shivitti (in German also under the title Ich bin der SS-Mann published), in which he reported on his LSD therapy with the Dutch doctor Jan C. Bastiaans. With this he tried to process his horrific memories of Auschwitz. Tom Segev introduced his book The Seventh Million in 1999 on Israel's culture of remembrance with regard to the Holocaust with a description of his encounter with De-Nur and the background to this book.

De-Nur testified on June 7, 1961 as a witness in the trial of Adolf Eichmann . In his speech he described Auschwitz as the “planet of ashes”. Before he could answer all of the attorney general's questions, he lost consciousness in the courtroom and was unable to continue his testimony. The statement also revealed his pseudonym.

Works

  • Salamandrah. (סלמנדרה: כרוניקה של משפחה יהודית במאה העשרים) Tel Aviv 1946
  • Beit ha-bubot , yidd . : Dos hoiz fun di ljalkes. Ateneo Literario en el IWO, Buenos Aires 1955; New edition ad T. Daniela. Amarilis, Tel Aviv 1980; engl. Version: The House of Dolls ; German versions: “Joy Department!” GOPA, Paris 1960; Trip to hell . From d. Yidd. v. Gerlinde Quenzer. Bleicher, Gerlingen 1980, ISBN 3-88350-413-0 ; The house of the dolls. From the Engl. Thomas Lindquist. Piper, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-492-03515-9
  • The pointer wos ibern kop. With drawings v. Geršon Knispl, Tel Aviv 1961; engl .: The Clock Above the Head
  • Beeper. New English Library, London 1962
  • Aš-šṭern. ham-Menôrā, Tel Aviv 1967
  • Phoenix over the Galilee. Harper & Row, New York 1969
  • Star Eternal. Arbor House, New York 1971
  • Sunrise over hell . Corgi Books, Ealing, London 1979
  • Nāqām. Miśrad hab-Bîṭṭāḥôn, Tel Aviv 1981, ISBN 965-05-0012-X
  • Di švue. JL Peretz, Tel Aviv 1982
  • Ṣôfen: edmaʿmaśśâ hag-garʿîn šel Ôšwîṣ , haq-Qîbbûṣ ham-Me'ûḥād, Ramad Gan 1987; yidd .: Šîwîtî ; engl .: Shivitti: A Vision. Harper & Row, San Francisco 1989; German: Shivitti. A vision . From d. Engl. V. Thomas Lindquist, Kunstmann, Munich 1991; that. (ud T. I am the SS man. A vision. ), Piper, Munich 1994 (Piper series, 1725), ISBN 3-492-11725-2 ; that. Pieper / Grüne Kraft, Löhrbach 2005 (The Green Branch), ISBN 3-922708-50-1
  • Di demonstration. Peretz, Tel Aviv 1990
  • Kaddish. General Associates, New York 1994, ISBN 0-9665159-0-0

literature

  • Yechiel Szeintuch: Ka-Tzetnik. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 3: He-Lu. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02503-6 , pp. 338–341.

Web links

Commons : Yehiel Dinur  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b David Mikics: Holocaust Pulp Fiction . In: Tablet Magazine , April 19, 2012. 
  2. ^ House of Dolls (Beit ha-bubot) . ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. novelguide.com, 2002 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.novelguide.com
  3. ↑ a b Isabel Kershner: Jerusalem Journal Israel's Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial . Courtesy of Heymann Brothers Films. In: New York Times , September 6, 2007
  4. ^ Günther Fischer / Manfred Prescher , Just save the world for a moment. Famous song lines and their history. Darmstadt 2015. p. 119.
  5. ↑ Tom Segev: The Seventh Million. The Holocaust and Israel's Politics of Remembrance. Rowohlt, Reinbek b. Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-498-06244-1 , pp. 10-22
  6. ^ Trial against Adolf Eichmann - video recording of session no. 68
personal data
SURNAME Fine, Yehiel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De-Nur, Yehiel; Ka-Tzetnik 135633 (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish Auschwitz inmate and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Sosnowiec
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2001
Place of death Tel Aviv