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Jerzyk - Diaries, Texts and Testimonies of the Urman Family (Paperback)
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Jerzyk - Diaries, Texts and Testimonies of the Urman Family (Paperback)
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On 13 November 1943, Jerzy Feliks Urman (known as Jerzyk) killed
himself, thinking the Gestapo had arrived. He was eleven and a
half. He and his family were in hiding in Drohobycz, during the
German occupation of East Galicia, now western Ukraine. A year
earlier the family had quit Stanislawow in the wake of brutal
round-ups and deportations of Jews. The boy's parents, uncle, and
grandmother survived the war. He kept a diary and jottings during
the two months before he died. Anthony Rudolf, Jerzyk's second
cousin once removed, published these texts in 1991 in a translation
made from a family typescript of the original. The recent discovery
of the diary of Sophie Urman, Jerzyk's mother, led Rudolf to
commission a translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. She has also
revised the earlier translation of Jerzyk's own diary after
comparing the typescript and the original manuscript, which is now
in Rudolf 's possession. The editor has written new introductions
and made extensive annotations in an attempt to clarify complex and
troubling issues.Drawing attention to specific remarks and
episodes, he interprets the death of Jerzyk - the only child
suicide in the extensive archive at Yad Vashem - not only as the
tragic action of a child under pressure but also as a noble and
heroic act. Likewise, the keeping of a diary, as with Anne Frank
and other children in hiding, was a form of defiance, an example of
what has come to be called spiritual or cultural resistance. The
book also contains two more texts by Sophie, testimonies by
Jerzyk's father and uncle, maps and family photographs. It ends
with Rudolf 's account of the tragic death of Mark Rothstein,
another second cousin. Mark was a few months younger than Jerzyk
when he died in the East End of London on 27 March 1945, during the
last day of the V2 bombing raids.
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