The Wartime Diary of Edmund Kessler (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781934843994)

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 and 1944. In vivid, raw, documentary style, he describes his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, in 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 caretaker for the hidden Jews on his family's farm. Edmund's daughter, Renata Kessler, coordinated the book and has written an 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. This volume is a tremendous resource for historians, scholars, and those interested in the Holocaust.

Author: Edmund Kessler
ISBN-10: 1934843997
ISBN-13: 9781934843994
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2010
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.39d