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Lvov Ghetto Diary

Lvov Ghetto Diary
Author: David Kahana
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Originally published in Hebrew, this memoir bears witness to the systematic destruction of some 135,000 Jews in the Ukranian city of Lvov during the Holocaust. The author, a rabbi, escaped death because he was hidden by the Ukranian archbishop of the Uniate Catholic Church. His wife and young daughter were also given refuge, separately, in Catholic convents. The memoir covers the period from July 1, 1941, when the Germans occupied Lvov, to July 27, 1944, when the city was liberated. In the first part of the book, the author is living in the Jewish ghetto under increasingly dire circumstances; in the second part, he is imprisoned in a forced labour camp; and in the third part, following his escape, he is hiding under the protection of Metropolitan Sheptytskyi.


Ghetto Diary

Ghetto Diary
Author: Janusz Korczak
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300097429

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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Holocaust Library, c1978.


Surviving the Holocaust

Surviving the Holocaust
Author: Avraham Tory
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1991-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674246292

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This remarkable chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944, was written under conditions of extreme danger by a Ghetto inmate and secretary of the Jewish Council. After the war, in order to escape from Lithuania, the author was forced to entrust the diary to leaders of the Escape movement; eventually it made its way to his new home in Israel. The diary incorporates Avraham Tory’s collections of official documents, Jewish Council reports, and original photographs and drawings made in the Ghetto. It depicts in grim detail the struggle for survival under Nazi domination, when—if not simply carted off and murdered in a random “action”—Jews were exploited as slave labor while being systematically starved and denied adequate housing and medical care. Through it all, Tory’s overriding purpose was to record the unimaginable events of these years and to memorialize the determination of the Jews to sustain their community life in the midst of the Nazi terror. Of the surviving diaries originating in the principal European Ghettos of this period, Tory’s is the longest written by an adult, a dramatic and horrifying document that makes an invaluable contribution to contemporary history. Tory provides an insider’s view of the desperate efforts of Ghetto leaders to protect Jews. Martin Gilbert’s masterly introduction establishes the authenticity of the diary, presents its events against the backdrop of the war in Europe, and considers the crucial questions of collaboration and resistance.


Smoke in the Sand

Smoke in the Sand
Author: Eliyahu Yones
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789652293084

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The information has been methodically collected and divided [giving] the reader a clear pictureThe analysis of the Holocaust period is enriched by accounts from the human aspect, which further our understanding of the individuals action and their motives.Prof. Dina Porat, the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, Tel Aviv UniversityA comprehensive work on the third largest Jewish community in Poland during the Nazi occupationThe research constitutes an important contribution to the history of the Holocaust in general and to the history of Polish and Ukrainian Jewry of this period in particular.Prof. Israel Gutman, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and former Head Historian, Yad VashemAn exceedingly thorough examination.The [book] includes an important section on the many labor camps in East Galicia, which except for the Janowska camp, have not been fully dealt with in research studies.Dr. Yitzchak Arad, former Executive Director, Yad Vashem


My Lvov

My Lvov
Author: Janina Hescheles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2020-01-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789493056367

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While still twelve years old, Janina Hescheles wrote this report from her hiding place in Cracow. She tells about the German occupation of her hometown Lvov, the loss of her parents, the ghetto and mass murder in the notorious labor camp Janowska. Thrown into the abyss of horror, Janina understood more than could be expected of someone her age.


The Wartime Diary of Edmund Kessler

The Wartime Diary of Edmund Kessler
Author: Edmund Kessler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781934843994

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Dr. Kessler, a Jewish attorney from Lwow, Poland, gives an eyewitness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in his diary. In vivid, raw, documentary style, he describes his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, the Janowska Concentration Camp, and in an underground bunker where he and 23 other Jews were hidden by a courageous Polish farmer and his family.


A Cup of Tears

A Cup of Tears
Author: Abraham Lewin
Publisher: Fontana Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Rywka's Diary

Rywka's Diary
Author: Anita Friedman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 006238967X

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"A work of elegant translation and painstaking contextualization by Holocaust scholars and surviving family members that sharpens the historical and spiritual lens through which it's absorbed." —Chicago Tribune The newly discovered diary of a Polish teenager in the Lodz ghetto during World War II—originally published by Jewish Family & Children’s Services of San Francisco, now revised, illustrated, and beautifully designed After more than seventy years in obscurity, the diary of a teenage girl during the Holocaust has been revealed for the first time. Rywka’s Diary is at once an astonishing historical document and a moving tribute to the many ordinary people whose lives were forever altered by the Holocaust. At its heart, it is the diary of a girl named Rywka Lipszyc who detailed the brutal conditions that Jews in the Lodz ghetto, the second largest in Poland, endured under the Nazis: poverty, hunger and malnutrition, religious oppression, and, in Rywka’s case, the death of her parents and siblings. Handwritten in a school notebook between October 1943 and April 1944, the diary ends literally in mid-sentence. What became of Rywka is a mystery. A Red Army doctor found her notebook in Auschwitz after its liberation in 1945 and took it back with her to the Soviet Union. Rywka’s Diary is also a moving coming-of-age story, in which a young woman expresses her curiosity about the world and her place in it and reflects on her relationship with God—a remarkable affirmation of her commitment to Judaism and her faith in humanity. Interwoven into this carefully translated diary are photographs, news clippings, maps, and commentary from Holocaust scholars and the girl’s surviving relatives, which provide an in-depth picture of both the conditions of Rywka's life and the mysterious end to her diary. Moving and illuminating, told by a brave young girl whose strong and charismatic voice speaks for millions, Rywka’s Diary is an extraordinary addition to the history of the Holocaust and World War II.


In the Sewers of Lvov

In the Sewers of Lvov
Author: Robert Marshall
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 144821002X

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It was the last refuge of the desperate Jews-the warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, the Nazis implemented the destruction of their friends and relatives in a final Aktion against the ghetto in the Polish city of Lvov. A small band of Jews, however, escaped into the grim network of tunnels, there to live for fourteen months with the city's waste, the sudden floods that washed some of them away, the fumes and the damp, the rats, the darkness, and the despair. Their only support was a sewer worker, an ex-criminal who constantly threatened to leave them if they ran out of money. Many died; some of cyanide in mass suicide, some of falling into the rushing waters of the river, some simply of exhaustion. A baby was born and then murdered almost immediately. The group quarrelled, split into factions and threatened each other at gun point. The survivors found themselves at one point, trapped in a chamber filling to the roof with storm water. Yet survive they did, even infiltrating themselves into the camps above to find their missing relatives. When the Russians liberated Lvov, they emerged from the sewers filthy, bent double, emaciated, unrecognizable. When they opened their eyes their eye seemed blood red. Robert Marshall, author of All the King's Men, has written the harrowing story of the survivor's ordeal based on a long series of interviews and a hitherto private diary, creating a blazing testimony to human faith and endurance. In the Sewers of Lvov was the inspiration for Academy Award nominated In Darkness.


Holocaust Chronicles

Holocaust Chronicles
Author: Robert Moses Shapiro
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780881256307

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The huge number of victims of the Holocaust is emotionally incomprehensible. The real horror can only be apprehended on the individual level. In the case of the Holocaust, many such records exist, since, as Ruth Wisse has observed, "many of the Jews in the ghettos and concentration camps . . . showed more concern for preserving a record of the incredible event they were witnessing than for their own survival." The studies presented in this volume survey this evidence--diaries, letters, oral histories, ghetto chronicles, rabbinic works, collections of photographs, songs--that originated in Warsaw, Lodz, Vilna, Auschwitz, and elsewhere. Together these documents allow us to gain some inkling of the experience of those who suffered in the ghettos and concentration camps--without the coloration and rethinkings of later recollections.