The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks From the Lodz Ghetto

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Synopsis
"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 Lodz 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.
Copyright:
1996

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
272 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780195122855
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
The Jewish Heritage Project and Kamil Turowski
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies
Submitted By:
Benjamin Vercellone
Proofread By:
MontCervin
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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