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Diary of Dawid Seirakowiak
Adelson
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Description for Diary of Dawid Seirakowiak
Paperback. The surviving diary of Dawid Sierakowiak, a teenager who died in the Lodz Ghetto during World War II, relates with intimate, undefended prose the relentless horror of everyday life in the ghetto, where more than 60,000 Jews perished. 58 photos. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 220.
"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 Łódź 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 ... Read more
"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 Łódź 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195122855
SKU
V9780195122855
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99-88
About Adelson
Alan Adelson is Executive Director of the Jewish Heritage Project in New York. he produced, and with Kathryn Taverna co-directed, the acclaimed documentary film º\dï Ghetto.
Reviews for Diary of Dawid Seirakowiak
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 ... Read more
his mother to the Nazis and his father to tuberculosis, the disease that would claim Sierakowiak at the ... Read more