Rose Ausländer
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Rose Ausländer was a Jewish poet writing in German and English. Born in Czernowitz in the Bukovina, she lived through its tumultuous history of belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Rom
Rose Ausländer
Paul Celan
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Paul Celan was a German-speaking Romanian poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator. He adopted his pen name following the war and resided in France from 1949, becoming a naturalized French ci
Rose Ausländer
…brother for two years, and another year in hiding so as not to be deported to the Nazi concentration camps. In the spring of 1943 Ausländer met poet Paul Celan in the Cernăuți ghetto. He later used Ausländer's image of "black milk" of a 1939 poem in his well-known poem Todesfuge published in 1948. Ausländer…
Celan in 1938
Celan's grave at the Cimetière de Thiais near Paris
Poem ("Nachmittag mit Zirkus und Zitadelle") by Paul Celan on a wall in Leiden