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Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak : Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto by Dawid Sierakowiak and Kamil Turowski (1998, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195122852
ISBN-139780195122855
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Book TitleDiary of Dawid Sierakowiak : Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicHolocaust
IllustratorYes
FeaturesReprint
GenreHistory
AuthorDawid Sierakowiak, Kamil Turowski
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight8.5 Oz
Item Length5.3 in
Item Width7.8 in
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Dewey Edition20
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Reviews"In its determined recording of the everyday experience of oppression, Dawid's diary offers a low-key but nonetheless authentic portrait of ghetto life and death during the Holocaust."--Kirkus Reviews, "Dawid's diaries are a terrifying record, all the more so because of the observant intelligence that persisted through life in a man-made hell."--The Atlantic Monthly, "This is an excellent source. It is real and genuine the way later reminiscences cannot be, including even Elie Wiesel's night."--Dietheim Prowe, Carleton College, "Dawid's diaries are a terrifying record, all the more so because of the observant intelligence that persisted through life in a man-made hell."--The Atlantic Monthly"The diary meticulously records Sierakowiak's own deterioriation as well as that of the ghetto. Sierakowiak chronicles the growing hunger and desperation of those residents not connected to Chaim Rumkowski, the ghetto's corrupt and dictatorial leader, and the loss of both parents--his mother to the Nazis and his father to tuberculosis, the disease that would claim Sierakowiak at the end.... What is here is a repetitive and detailed account of a population beingmethodically ground into dust."--Publishers Weekly"In its determined recording of the everyday experience of oppression, Dawid's diary offers a low-key but nonetheless authentic portrait of ghetto life and death during the Holocaust."--Kirkus Reviews"Dawid's diaries are a terrifying record, all the more so because of the observant intelligence that persisted through life in a man-made hell."--The Atlantic Monthly"For libraries striving to develop an extensive collection of Holocaust materials, this book is highly recommended."--School Library Journal"This diary presents a vivid complement to those of Anne frank and the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto....Simply but vividly, they bring a terrifying existence to life. The photos help make this a uniquely accessible and valuable book."--Daniel J. Levinson,Kliatt"This is an excellent source. It is real and genuine the way later reminiscences cannot be, including even Elie Wiesel's night."--Dietheim Prowe, Carleton College, "This diary presents a vivid complement to those of Anne frank and theleaders of the Warsaw Ghetto....Simply but vividly, they bring a terrifyingexistence to life. The photos help make this a uniquely accessible and valuablebook."--Daniel J. Levinson,Kliatt, "For libraries striving to develop an extensive collection of Holocaust materials, this book is highly recommended."--School Library Journal, "Dawid's diaries are a terrifying record, all the more so because of theobservant intelligence that persisted through life in a man-made hell."--TheAtlantic Monthly, "This diary presents a vivid complement to those of Anne frank and the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto....Simply but vividly, they bring a terrifying existence to life. The photos help make this a uniquely accessible and valuable book."--Daniel J. Levinson,Kliatt, "The diary meticulously records Sierakowiak's own deterioriation as well as that of the ghetto. Sierakowiak chronicles the growing hunger and desperation of those residents not connected to Chaim Rumkowski, the ghetto's corrupt and dictatorial leader, and the loss of both parents--his motherto the Nazis and his father to tuberculosis, the disease that would claim Sierakowiak at the end.... What is here is a repetitive and detailed account of a population being methodically ground into dust."--Publishers Weekly
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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 Lódz 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 Lódz 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., This diary is 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. When Lodz is occupied by the Nazis, the Sierakowiak family is among the city's 200,000 Jews who are forced into a sealed ghetto, completely cut off from the outside world. In intimate, candid prose, the diary's young author Dawid 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 death and deportation; and working with an underground organization. He would die of tuberculosis., "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 lódz 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 lódz 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., "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 /Ld'z 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 /Ld'z 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.
LC Classification NumberDS135.P63
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