Diary Of Dawid Sierakowak
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The Diary Of Dawid Sierakowiak
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Author : Dawid Sierakowiak
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998-05-14
The Diary Of Dawid Sierakowiak written by Dawid Sierakowiak and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-14 with History categories.
"In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us." This is Dawid Sierakowiak's final diary entry. Soon after writing it, the young author died of tuberculosis, exhaustion, and starvation--the Holocaust syndrome known as "ghetto disease." After the liberation of the Łódź Ghetto, his notebooks were found stacked on a cookstove, ready to be burned for heat. Young Sierakowiak was one of more than 60,000 Jews who perished in that notorious urban slave camp, a man-made hell which was the longest surviving concentration of Jews in Nazi Europe. The diary comprises a remarkable legacy left to humanity by its teenage author. It is one of the most fastidiously detailed accounts ever rendered of modern life in human bondage. Off mountain climbing and studying in southern Poland during the summer of 1939, Dawid begins his diary with a heady enthusiasm to experience life, learn languages, and read great literature. He returns home under the quickly gathering clouds of war. Abruptly Łódź is occupied by the Nazis, and the Sierakowiak family is among the city's 200,000 Jews who are soon forced into a sealed ghetto, completely cut off from the outside world. With intimate, undefended prose, the diary's young author begins to describe the relentless horror of their predicament: his daily struggle to obtain food to survive; trying to make reason out of a world gone mad; coping with the plagues of death and deportation. Repeatedly he rallies himself against fear and pessimism, fighting the cold, disease, and exhaustion which finally consume him. Physical pain and emotional woe hold him constantly at the edge of endurance. Hunger tears Dawid's family apart, turning his father into a thief who steals bread from his wife and children. The wonder of the diary is that every bit of hardship yields wisdom from Dawid's remarkable intellect. Reading it, you become a prisoner with him in the ghetto, and with discomfiting intimacy you begin to experience the incredible process by which the vast majority of the Jews of Europe were annihilated in World War II. Significantly, the youth has no doubt about the consequence of deportation out of the ghetto: "Deportation into lard," he calls it. A committed communist and the unit leader of an underground organization, he crusades for more food for the ghetto's school children. But when invited to pledge his life to a suicide resistance squad, he writes that he cannot become a "professional revolutionary." He owes his strength and life to the care of his family.
The Diary Of Dawid Sierakowiak
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Author : Alan Adelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Diary Of Dawid Sierakowiak written by Alan Adelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
Presents diary entries that document the author's experiences during the Nazi persecution of Jews in Łódź, Poland.
The Diary Of Dawid Sierakowiak
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Author : Dawid Sierakowiak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Diary Of Dawid Sierakowiak written by Dawid Sierakowiak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
Sierakowiak died of tuberculosis, exhaustion and starvation in Lódź Ghetto, one of more than 60,000 Jews who perished in the notorious urban slave camp. His diary, found stacked on a stove, ready to be burned for heat, is the teenager's legacy.
The Diary Of Dawid Sierakowiak
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Author : Dawid Sierakowiak
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
The Diary Of Dawid Sierakowiak written by Dawid Sierakowiak and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Presents diary entries that document the author's experiences during the Nazi persecution of Jews in Łódź, Poland.
Surviving The Holocaust
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Author : Avraham Tory
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1991-09-01
Surviving The Holocaust written by Avraham Tory and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-09-01 with History categories.
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.
Diary Of Dawid Sierakowak
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Author : Dawid Sierakowiak
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Heritage Project
Release Date : 1998-12-01
Diary Of Dawid Sierakowak written by Dawid Sierakowiak and has been published by Jewish Heritage Project this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-01 with categories.
Lodz Ghetto
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Author : Alan Adelson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Release Date : 1991
Lodz Ghetto written by Alan Adelson and has been published by Penguin (Non-Classics) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Offers a powerful testimonial to the everyday horrors and the enduring human spirit present in Lodz Ghetto
Ghetto Diary
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Author : Janusz Korczak
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Ghetto Diary written by Janusz Korczak and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Holocaust Library, c1978.
Children In The Holocaust And World War Ii
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Author : Laurel Holliday
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-02-04
Children In The Holocaust And World War Ii written by Laurel Holliday and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England. Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through, day after day. As powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary, here are children's experiences—all written with an unguarded eloquence that belies their years. The diarists include a Hungarian girl, selected by Mengele to be put in a line of prisoners who were tortured and murdered; a Danish Christian boy executed by the Nazis for his partisan work; and a twelve-year-old Dutch boy who lived through the Blitzkrieg in Rotterdam. In the Janowska death camp, eleven-year-old Pole Janina Heshele so inspired her fellow prisoners with the power of her poetry that they found a way to save her from the Nazi ovens. Mary Berg was imprisoned at sixteen in the Warsaw ghetto even though her mother was American and Christian. She left an eyewitness record of ghetto atrocities, a diary she was able to smuggle out of captivity. Moshe Flinker, a sixteen-year-old Netherlander, was betrayed by an informer who led the Gestapo to his family's door; Moshe and his parents died in Auschwitz in 1944. They come from Czechoslovakia, Austria, Israel, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, England, and Denmark. They write in spare, searing prose of life in ghettos and concentration camps, of bombings and Blitzkriegs, of fear and courage, tragedy and transcendence. Their voices and their vision ennoble us all.
Flight And Rescue
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Author : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2001
Flight And Rescue written by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture categories.
The story of more than 2,000 Polish Jewish refugees who fled across the Soviet Union to Japan, where they awaited entrance visas to the United States and elsewhere.