The Warsaw Ghetto Diaries

The Warsaw Ghetto Diaries
Author: Hillel Seidman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 393
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781568711331

This beautifully written historical document tells about the Warsaw ghetto's last years, as recorded by the official archivist of Warsaw's Judenrat. These diary entries remain a stirring and remarkable testament to the heroism of Warsaw Jewry in its last days.

A Cup of Tears

A Cup of Tears
Author: Abraham Lewin
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1988-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780631162155

Offers a description of daily life for Jews sealed off by the Nazis in a large section of Warsaw

Ghetto Diary

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

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

Scroll of Agony

Scroll of Agony
Author: Chaim Aron Kaplan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780253335340

Chaim Aron Kaplan, born in 1880 in Belarus, wrote his "Megillat yissurin" ("Scroll of Suffering") in the Warsaw ghetto. A Zionist who emphasized the role of history in Jewish culture, he wrote his diary in Hebrew for future historians, but lost his belief in God and feared that his diary may serve no purpose if the entire Jewish nation is annihilated. He was killed in Treblinka in 1942.

The Diary of Mary Berg

The Diary of Mary Berg
Author: Mary Berg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1780744463

The first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw Ghetto Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout. This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks with the most significant documents of the Second World War. Mary Berg candidly chronicles not only the daily deprivations and mass deportations, but also the resistance and resilience of the inhabitants, their secret societies, and the youth at the forefront of the fight against Nazi terror. Above all The Diary of Mary Berg is a uniquely personal story of a life-loving girl’s encounter with unparalleled human suffering, and offers an extraordinary insight into one of the darkest chapters of human history.

Resistance

Resistance
Author: Israel Gutman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780395901304

A Holocaust expert who survived three Nazi concentration camps recounts the events of the Jewish uprising in Warsaw.

Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto

Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto
Author: David G. Roskies
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300245351

The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, the collection of reportage, diaries, prose, artwork, poems, jokes, and sermons captures the heroism, tragedy, humor, and social dynamics of the ghetto. Miraculously surviving the devastation of war, this extraordinary archive encompasses a vast range of voices—young and old, men and women, the pious and the secular, optimists and pessimists—and chronicles different perspectives on the topics of the day while also preserving rapidly endangered cultural traditions. Described by David G. Roskies as “a civilization responding to its own destruction,” these texts tell the story of the Warsaw Ghetto in real time, against time, and for all time.

Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto

Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto
Author: Emanuel Ringelblum
Publisher: Milk & Cookies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)
ISBN: 9781596873315

Through anecdotes, stories and notations, which Emanuel Ringelblum intended to expand after the liberation of Warsaw, there emerges the agonising, eyewitness accounts of human beings caught in senseless, unrelenting brutality. It is a terrifying account, bitter, compelling and often unbelievable.

Warsaw Ghetto Police

Warsaw Ghetto Police
Author: Katarzyna Person
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501754092

In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service. Person tracks the everyday life of policemen as their involvement with the horrors of ghetto life gradually increased. Facing and engaging with brutality, corruption, and the degradation and humiliation of their own people, these policemen found it virtually impossible to exercise individual agency. While some saw the Jewish police as fellow victims, others viewed them as a more dangerous threat than the German occupation authorities; both were held responsible for the destruction of a historically important and thriving community. Person emphasizes the complexity of the situation, the policemen's place in the network of social life in the ghetto, and the difficulty behind the choices that they made. By placing the actions of the Jewish Order Service in historical context, she explores both the decisions that its members were forced to make and the consequences of those actions. Featuring testimonies of members of the Jewish Order Service, and of others who could see them as they themselves could not, Warsaw Ghetto Police brings these impossible situations to life. It also demonstrates how a community chooses to remember those whose allegiances did not seem clear. Published in Association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Courage Under Siege

Courage Under Siege
Author: Charles G. Roland
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN:

Charles Roland, a physician and historian, provides the first history of the medical disaster that took place in the Warsaw ghetto.