Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw GhettoMichal Grynberg This book is the story of the Warsaw Ghetto told through twenty-eight never before published accounts. In the history of the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto stands as the enduring symbol of Jewish suffering and heroism. This collective memoir, a mosaic of individual diaries, journals, and accounts, follows the fate of the Warsaw Jews from the first bombardments of the Polish capital to the razing of the Jewish district. The life of the ghetto appears here in striking detail: the frantic exchange of apartments as the walls first go up the daily battle against starvation and disease the moral ambiguities confronting Jewish bureaucracies under Nazi rule the ingenuity of smugglers and the acts of resistance. Written inside the ghetto or in hiding outside its walls, these extraordinary testimonies preserve voices otherwise consigned to oblivion: a woman doctor whose four-year-old son is deemed a threat, to the hideout of a painter determined to complete his mural of Job and his trials, a ten-year-old girl barely eluding blackmailers on the Aryan side of the city. Stunning in their immediacy, the urgent accounts recorded here provide much more than invaluable historical detail: they challenge us to imagine the unimaginable. |
Other editions - View all
Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto Michal Grynberg Limited preview - 2003 |
Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto Michal Grynberg No preview available - 2003 |
Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto Michal Grynberg No preview available - 2002 |
Common terms and phrases
Adam Czerniaków afraid Aktion apartment Aryan side asked attic basement Befehlstelle began Brandt bread brother building bunker camp cars child courtyard Czerniaków death deportation district door escape everything eyes face factory fighting finally fire gendarmes Germans Gęsia Gestapo guard hand Hauptsturmführer head hideout hiding place husband inside the ghetto Jerzy Jewish Council Jewish Historical Institute Jewish police Jews Judenrat Katarzyna Kraków laborer later leave Leszno living Łódź looked Lublin managed Michał Mietek moved murdered Nalewki Nazi night Niska Oberscharführer Otwock pani Zofia Pawiak Poniatów prisoners roundups Rysiek Scharführer shelter shot shouting someone soup Stanisław stay Street survived Szeryński There's things Többens told took Trawniki Treblinka typescript in Polish Ukrainians Umschlagplatz Untersturmführer Uprising waiting wall wanted Warsaw Ghetto Warsaw Uprising wife woman women workers workshops Yiddish Zamenhof Ziuta zloty