Screening Auschwitz: Wanda Jakubowska's the Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration

by Marek Haltof

Winner of The 2019 Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award

Screening Auschwitz examines the classic Polish Holocaust film The Last Stage (Ostatni etap), directed by the Auschwitz survivor Wanda Jakubowska (1907-1998). Released in 1948, The Last Stage was a pioneering work and the first narrative film to portray the Nazi concentration and extermination camp complex of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Marek Haltof's fascinating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810136104
• ISBN13: 9780810136106
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"