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  The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom (Paperback) By (author) Adam Czerniakow, Edited by Raul Hilberg, Edited by Stanislaw Staron, Edited by Josef Kermish

  

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  Short Description for The Warsaw Diary of Adam CzerniakowBefore he killed himself in 1942, Czerniakow was for almost three years the Nazi-sponsored "mayor" of the Warsaw Ghetto yet a Jew, devoted to his people. 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 Kafkaesque horror." Houston Chronicle.
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  • Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
  • Published: 01 May 1999
  • Format: Paperback 444 pages
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  • Categories: European History | Social & Cultural History | Holocaust | Second World War
  • ISBN 13: 9781566632300 ISBN 10: 1566632307
  • Sales rank: 424,023

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• 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 OmayorO 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 GhettoOs terminal agony. It is the most important diary to emerge from the Holocaust. OA tale of Kafaesque horror.O_Houston Chronicle. OAn astonishing record of desperate adaptation and resilient will.O_The New Leader. OWithout parallel.O_Isaiah Trunk, author of Judenrat. OEnormously evocative.O_Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal. OA 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.O_Peter Osnos, Washington Post.