On Saturday, 13 February 1943, a crowd of 998 men, women and children clambered out of the dilapidated boxcars and down onto the Judenrampe, the unloading platform for new arrivals at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
Bryan Karetnyk, translator of the new edition from Prototype Publishing, introduces the writer and his work.
With his collected works republished in Russian in 2012, and the first English translation of Deceit (in fact, the first full translation of his work into any language) published this week, his legacy is beginning to be restored. But when he was arrested by the Nazis, deported and killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1943, his work was almost lost forever. Yuri Felsen was one of the leading writers of his generation, a significant voice in the Russian diaspora in interwar Paris.
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