The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow - Prelude to Doom (Paperback)

Adam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23, 1942 on the face of it not an uncommon occurrence in those times. But there is more to the story than the tragic death of one man among so many millions. Czerniakow was for almost three years the chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat a Jew, devoted to his people, who served as the Nazi-sponsored mayor of the Warsaw Ghetto. His personal dealings with the German authorities bring to this daily record of events a depth of knowledge, accuracy of detail, and panorama of view that was possible to no other participant in the epic prelude to the final doom of the largest captive Jewish community in Eastern Europe. This secret journal is not only the testimony of an unbearable personal burden but the documentary of the Ghetto s terminal agony. It is the most important diary to emerge from the Holocaust. A tale of Kafaesque horror. Houston Chronicle. An astonishing record of desperate adaptation and resilient will. The New Leader. Without parallel. Isaiah Trunk, author of Judenrat. Enormously evocative. Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal. A nightmare Alice-in-Wonderland...intensely dramatic in the aggregate for all the matter-of-factness of individual entries...The Diary of Adam Czerniakow makes a deep, deep impression. Peter Osnos, Washington Post.

General

Imprint:	Ivan R. Dee
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Release date:	March 1999
First published:	March 1999
Editors:	Raul Hilberg • Stanislaw Staron • Josef Kermisz
Dimensions:	216 x 141 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	444
ISBN-13:	978-1-56663-230-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
LSN:	1-56663-230-7
Barcode:	9781566632300

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