House of Dolls
House of Dolls is a Holocaust novella by Ka-tzetnik 135633, first published in Hebrew in 1953. Moshe M. Kohn's English translation appeared from Simon and Schuster, New York, in 1955 and from F. Muller, London, in 1956. It portrays Jewish women forced into a camp brothel, which historians dispute.
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- F. Muller, 1956
House of Dolls by Ka-tzetnik 135633 was first published in 1953. We track 2 editions.
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- 19 on Open Library, 11 in English
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We track 2 editions of House of Dolls. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
When was House of Dolls first published?
House of Dolls by Ka-tzetnik 135633 was first published in 1953.
Where these facts come from
- House of Dolls, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- House of dolls (F. Muller, 1956), Open Library (openlibrary.org)
- House of dolls (Simon and Schuster, 1955), Open Library (openlibrary.org)
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