Without flowers or crowns | Канцтовары для офиса и дома

«When I returned from Auschwitz, in 1945, I felt with such intensity what I had just lived that it was impossible for me to keep it just for myself.» that's how it starts without flowers or crowns. I don't regret writing these notes back from the concentration camp, so, in the long run, memories become deformed, sweetened or dramatised, and they always walk away from the truth.» Odette Elina, Jewish, resistance member since 1940, arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz, she offers us on these shocking pages (lirism and barbarism) A first-order literary piece, written with an exciting prose that is not used for effecting; He offers us his testimony as a survivor of crematory ovens and his truth, committed to the victims but nothing victimists; A truth that is even more demolish because it also counts how cruelty is not just the heritage of executioners... Though above all, this is a book about the comforting power of love and culture.
 
«When they have ceased to the echoes, for all witnesses will have died, when oblivion takes over, as usual, from the truth, it will be necessary to return to documents like this.» albert Camus