Das Buch erzählt eine Geschichte aus dem Ghetto während des Krieges. Es ist nicht eine Geschichte vom Widerstand, sondern von einem Heldentum ganz anderer Art; eine melancholisch-heitere, leise, eine kunstvolle komponierte Geschichte ist es, die ohne Phantasie und Menschlichkeit…
Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to supply …
"The Venice Ghetto was founded in 1516 by the Venetian government as a segregated area of the city in which Jews were compelled to live. The world's first ghetto and the origin of the English word, the term simultaneously works to mark specific places and their histories, and as…
Memoirs relating the author's experiences in the Kovno ghetto and in Auschwitz and Dachau (where he was liberated). He emigrated to the U.S. in 1949.
Analyzes poetry written in the ghettos and concentration camps, with special emphasis on the works of Abraham Sutzkever (Vilna) and Władysław Szlengel (Warsaw). Contends that the underlying principle in most of this poetry was to offer testimony, but it also indicates the spirit…
