Warsaw Testament (Paperback)

Paperback. Winner of the 2024 National Jewish Book Award: Holocaust Memoir (in Memory of Dr. Charles and Ethel Weitzman) Rokhl Auerbach was a journalist, literary critic, and one of only three surviving members of the Oyneg Shabes, historian Emanuel Ringelblums top-secret archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. Upon immigrating to Israel in 1950 she founded the witness testimony division at Yad Vashem and played a foundational role in the development of Holocaust memory. Warsaw Testament, a memoir based on her wartime writings both in the ghetto and on the Aryan side of the occupied city, provides an unmatched portrait of the last days of Warsaws Yiddish literary and cultural communityand of Auerbachs own struggle to survive. Born in Lanowitz, Rokhl Auerbach was a journalist, literary critic, memoirist, and a member of the Warsaw Yiddish literary community before the Holocaust. One of only three surviving members of the Oyneg Shabes archive project, Auerbach's writings became a crucial source of information for historians of prewar Jewish Warsaw and the Warsaw Ghetto. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…