Los olores de Buchenwald. Memoria olfativa de Jorge Semprún en La escritura o la vida by David García Cames

“…Este trabajo aborda uno de los clásicos de la literatura concentracionaria, La escritura o la vida (1994) de Jorge Semprún, a partir del análisis de los mecanismos descriptivos mediante los cuales el autor se acerca a los olores que era posible percibir en Buchenwald. La memoria olfativa se constituye como una forma de construcción de la otredad cuya pregnancia queda fijada en la escritura. …”
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El testimonio recurrente de la experiencia concentracionaria de Jorge Semprún: dar voz al silencio y a la palabra by Beatriz Coca Méndez

“…Palabras clave: prosa concentracionaria; Buchenwald; memoria; autobiografía; Jorge Semprún. …”
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Revenances et hantises dans les récits des camps de Jorge Semprun by Marie-Christine PAVIS

“…S'il est une expérience terrible propre à susciter revenances et hantises, c'est bien celle des camps de concentration. Que celui de Buchenwald où il a été déporté de janvier 1944 à avril 1945 soit pour Jorge Semprun, résistant communiste, un fond inépuisable d'images et de souvenirs n'a donc rien d'étonnant. …”
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Comment vivre après Auschwitz ? Romain Gary et l’écriture de l’après (1946-1956) by Kerwin Spire

“…Since the immediate post-war period, the literary figure of the Shoah survivor has been haunting Romain Gary’s fictional work: it is Tulipe, in the eponymous story (1946), who, coming out of Buchenwald, settled in Harlem’s “new world”; it is Vanderputte, in Le Grand Vestiaire (The Company of Men, 1948), who denounced a Resistance network; it is the “Companion of the Liberation” Jacques Rainier in Les couleurs du jour (Colors of the Day, 1952), who saw the ideal of a Free France crumble and volunteered to fight in Korea; it is Morel, in Les racines du ciel (The Roots of Heaven, 1956) who survived the experience of the concentration camps by imagining herds of elephant sprinting across the savannah.Between 1946 and 1956, Romain Gary examined and experimented different post-Shoah attitudes through these four characters. …”
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Le Miraculé de Saint-Pierre : de Cyparis à Chocolat, ou le Noir comme « spectacle » by Kathleen Gyssels

“…Gaston-Paul Effa had particularly focused on another character, hitherto unknown to Antillean and French-speaking readers: Raphael Elizé, mayor of Martiniquan origin who was deported to the concentration camps and died in Buchenwald. Séraphine is, moreover, the great-granddaughter of the prisoner who miraculously survived the deadly fire that killed the population of St. …”
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The Abode of the Other (Museums in German Concentration Camps 1933-1945) by Božidar Jezernik

“…Similar museums worked in other German concentration camps (Buchenwald, Mauthausen and Auschwitz). The richest was the museum in Gusen I, the sub-camp of Mauthausen. …”
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