{"id":30120,"date":"2026-06-02T07:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/?post_type=wydarzenia&p=30120"},"modified":"2026-06-02T07:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:35:57","slug":"czerwcowe-spotkanie-klubu-ksiazki-srodkowoeuropejskiej","status":"publish","type":"wydarzenia","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wydarzenia\/czerwcowe-spotkanie-klubu-ksiazki-srodkowoeuropejskiej\/","title":{"rendered":"June meeting of the Central European Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We invite you to the June meeting of the Central European Book Club, which will be dedicated to J\u00f3zsef Debreczeni\u2019s book \u201cCold Crematorium\u201d. During the meeting, we will examine this poignant account of the horrors of life in concentration camps, which, with poetic sensitivity but also journalistic honesty and irony, depicts the fate of people subjected to extreme experiences. We will also consider how words can be used to address this subject and whether it is possible to convey the specific nature of such stories through literature.\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 June 2026, 18.00<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Central European Book Club meeting in the seminar room on the second floor of the Ravens House will be led by Daniel Warmuz.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First published in 1950, J\u00f3zsef Debreczeni\u2019s \u201cCold Crematorium\u201d has been hailed by international critics as a work of Holocaust literature rediscovered after many years, its artistry rivalling the testimonies of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Imre Kert\u00e9sz and Tadeusz Borowski. The author, a Hungarian writer, poet and journalist, was deported to Auschwitz in May 1944 and spent the following twelve months in Lower Silesia, in the subcamps of Gross-Rosen, which formed part of the notorious \u201cRiese\u201d (\u201cGiant\u201d) project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His time in the world of Nazi concentration camps, his experience of immense suffering and his brush with death, alongside his hope for survival, did not rob J\u00f3zsef Debreczeni of his poetic sensibility or the perspective befitting a true reporter \u2013 the book is a poignant account of the ordeal of concentration camp prisoners, shedding new light on the social hierarchy that prevailed there and the scale of suffering. Honest, at times uncompromising and not shying away from irony, the text transports readers behind the barbed wire, into the very heart of hell, revealing the fate that \u201cpeople have wrought upon people\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u00f3zsef Debreczeni, \u201cCold Crematorium\u201d, trans. Daniel Warmuz, Filia Publishing House, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenter:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Warmuz, a Hungarian and Polish language specialist, translator, researcher and populariser of Hungarian literature. He is the author of academic articles, essays and reviews. He translates prose, poetry and drama. His translations include the reportage book \u201cZimne crematorium\u201d (2025), Zolt\u00e1n Lesi’s \u201cSkok wzwy\u017c\u201d (2021) and Tibor No\u00e9 Kiss’s \u201cIncognito\u201d (2017). He is the winner of the Adam W\u0142odek Award (2019) and the Angelus Central European Literary Award for his translation of Zolt\u00e1n Mih\u00e1ly Nagy’s poetic novel \u201cSzata\u0144ski pomiot\u201d (Satan’s Spawn) (2022). He lives in Krakow and visits Budapest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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