Submitted by watchungbooksellers on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 11:05am
04/08/2010 7:00 pm
In The Wartime Diary Of Edmund Kessler, Dr. Kessler, a Jewish attorney
from Lwow, Poland, gives an eye-witness account of the Holocaust through
the events recorded in his diary between the years, 1942-1944. In
vivid, raw, documentary style, he describes his experiences in the Lwow
Ghetto, the Janowska Concentration Camp, and in an underground bunker
where he and twenty-three other Jews were hidden by a courageous Polish
farmer and his family. The book includes a chapter written by Kazimierz
Kalwinski, who, as a teenager, was a care-taker for the hidden Jews on
his familys farm. Edmunds daughter, Renata Kessler, coordinated the book
and has written the epilogue about her search for the story, which has
taken her to Israel, Poland, and Lviv, Ukraine. Renowned scholar Antony
Polonsky contributes an insightful historical overview of the times in
which the book takes place. A tremendous resource for historians,
scholars, and all serious students of the Holocaust.