Izraelský historik Otto Dov Kulka vypráví osvětimský příběh o české rodině, která nikdy neexistovala
The Israeli Historian Otto Dov Kulka Tells an Auschwitz Story of a Czech Family That Never Existed

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the award-winning book by Otto Dov Kulka, Krajinymetropolesmrti. The book, which tells of the author’s childhood experience in Nazi concentration camps, depicts a family that did not exist. Kulka wrote out his older sister and first father, possibly because their mention would point to the fact that his mother had bad an extramarital relationship with the man who became his second, and adoptive, father, Erich Kulka. By analysing these omissions, I offer a close narrative reading and feminist critique, demonstrating that memoirs of famous men routinely remove important women protagonists. Moreover, I argue, the issue at hand is an uncritical, sentimentalizing reading of Holocaust history and survivors’ memoirs.

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