'demonic forces' at Auschwitz: T.S. Eliot reads Jerzy Andrzejewski's' Roll Call'

This article traces the origin of the Auschwitz text, which has been identified as Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Roll Call (Apel), and the journey it made from Nazi-occupied Warsaw to T.S.Eliot’s desk in London. Since Eliot’s preface to Roll Call did not appear in print in 1945, as originally planned, and remained unknown to the scholarly community for over seventy years, its recent publication in volume 6 of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, edited by David Chinitz and Ronald Schuchard, gives rise to a number of questions.