About the Author

ROBERT ANTELME (1917-1990) was 26 years old when, in 1943, he joined a French Resistance unit in Paris headed by FranHois Mitterand. Betrayed to the Gestapo a year later, Antelme was arrested and deported to Germany, where he worked in a forced-labor camp in Gandersheim until the Spring of 1945 when he was moved to Dachau. After Dachau was liberated by the Americans, Antelme, emaciated and near death, was recognized and rescued from the quarantined camp by Mitterrand. The Human Race (Marlboro Press/Northwestern, 1998) was Antelme's sole publication.

JEFFREY HAIGHT is also the translator of Antelme's The Human Race (The Marlboro Press/Northwestern, 1998). He currently teaches at Franklin Pierce College and the College for Lifelong Learning of the University System of New Hampshire.