Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum

Ringelblum, Emmanuel, ed. and trans. by Jacob Sloan

ISBN 10: 0805204601 / ISBN 13: 9780805204605

Published by Schocken Books, New York, 1974

About this Item

369, wraps, maps, footnotes, chronology, index, some wear and soiling to covers. Emmanuel Ringelblum was a young and promising social historian on the eve of World War II, and a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance. He did not survive the war, but his journals were found in the ruins of the ghetto.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum
• Publisher: Schocken Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805204601
• ISBN 13: 9780805204605
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Schocken Edition.
• Condition: good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Holocaust
  • Jews
  • WWII

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Synopsis

Records the experiences, aspirations, and courage of the Polish Jews as well as the horror of the Nazi's systematic destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto

About the Author

Ammanual Ringelblum was 39 when he began his notes. When the Germans first invaded Poland, Ringelblum, who could have stayed abroad and escaped, returned to Warsaw from Switzerland knowing that his was an historical event of importance for his people and a moment in time that must be forever a part of written history. As the recognized archivist of the Ghetto he gathered around him a staff, and assigned each to cover a specific part of Ghetto life. From these reports and this notes, he assembled his Journal. On March 7, 1944, Emmanual Ringelblum was executed among the ruins of Warsaw, together with his wife, his son, and thirt-eight others who shared his hiding place.