Poems from Dachau
- Date
- Tuesday 10 May 2011
- Time
- 16:00
- Location
- Leeds Humanities Research Institute, 29-31 Clarendon Place
Dorothea Heiser will speak about the collection of poems from Dachau concentration camp that she published in 1994, Mein Schatten in Dachau.
Dorothea spent a decade from the mid-1980s collecting poems written by inmates of Dachau of all different nationalities - Russian, Polish, German, Czech, French, Italian, and English - and interviewing survivors in order to reconstruct biographies.