Abstract

The subject of the study focuses on the poetry of the Polish-French literature historian Zygmunt Lubicz-Zaleski. The reason for my research was the Polish edition of his poetic cycle Relikwiarz buchenwaldzki which was created in the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald between 1943–1945 and until now was not widely known among the readers in Poland. Lubicz-Zaleski’s concentration camp poetry is presented within the context of looking at the nuances that the Polish and German prisoners’ of war collection of poetry shared about their ordeal while in Buchenwald. I also point out the domination of the German former communist prisoners in access to publishing within the German Democratic Republic after 1945 and because of this the lack of availability of French and Polish publications in East Germany. The main aim of the study was looking at Lubicz-Zaleski’s war poetry and its reception in a broader historical-political context.