| The Wartime Diary of Edmund Kessler Contributor(s): Kessler, Edmund (Author), Kessler, Renata (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1934843997 ISBN-13: 9781934843994 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Holocaust - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2010000597 |
| Series: Jews of Poland |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.59 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dr. Kessler, a Jewish attorney from Lwow, Poland, gives an eye-witness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in his diary between the years 1942 and 1944. In vivid, raw, documentary style, he describes his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, in the Janowska Concentration Camp, and in an underground bunker where he and twenty-three other Jews were hidden by a courageous Polish farmer and his family. The book includes a chapter written by Kazimierz Kalwinski, who as a teenager was a caretaker for the hidden Jews on his family's farm. Edmund's daughter, Renata Kessler, coordinated the book and has written an epilogue about her search for the story, which has taken her to Israel, Poland, and Lviv, Ukraine. Renowned scholar Antony Polonsky contributes an insightful historical overview of the times in which the book takes place. This volume is a tremendous resource for historians, scholars, and those interested in the Holocaust. |