Author: SIERAKOWIAK, DAWID (EDITED BY ALAN ADELSON, TRANSLATED BY KAMIL TUROWSKI):
Title: The Diary of Dawid Sierakowia: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto.
Description: New York, Oxford University Press. 1996, 1st edition. Orig. Cloth with d.j. 271 pages illustrated with black & white photographs. Hardback with dustjacket. "Dawid Sierakowiak was born in Poland in July 1924. He began his diary when he was fourteen, before the German invasion of Poland, and continued it until April 1943. He and his family were confined to the Lodz Ghetto, where Dawid recorded the deportation of his mother, the death of his father, and the starvation and suffering of all. He died of tuberculosis and starvation in the ghetto on August 8, 1943. He was 19 years old. His younger sister, the last survivor of the family, was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and presumably died there. Book and dustjacket as new.

Keywords: Judaica/Holocaust/Poland/Ghetto/Lodz ghetto/Diary


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