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The wartime diary of Edmund Kessler : Lwow, Poland, 1942-1944 / edited by Renata Kessler ; introduction by Antony Polonsky ; preface by David Bossman ; foreword by Leon W. Wells ; "Salvation" by Kazimierz Kalwinski ; "Lusia's letter" by Lusia Sicher ; epilogue by Renata Kessler ; afterword by Sarah Shapiro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kessler, Edmund, -1985.
- Series:
- Jews of Poland.
- Jews of Poland
- Standardized Title:
- Przeżyć holokaust we Lwowie. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Ukraine--Lʹviv--Diaries.
- Jews.
- Jews--Poland--Diaries.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Lʹviv--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Lʹviv--History--20th century.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine--Lʹviv--History--20th century.
- Bunkers (Fortification)--Ukraine--Lʹviv Region--History--20th century.
- Bunkers (Fortification).
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)--Biography.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine).
- Janowska (Concentration camp).
- Kessler, Edmund, -1985--Diaries.
- Kessler, Edmund.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Kessler family of Lwow
- Autobiographical statement
- Life in America
- Our people
- Terror in Lwow
- Life in the camps
- Reflections
- Salvation
- Our bunker in Lwow
- Lusia's letter
- Epilogue
- The search
- Afterword
- Biographical statements
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Kalwinski, Kaziemierz. Salvation.
- Sicher, Lusia. Lusia's letter.
- ISBN:
- 1-61811-122-1
- OCLC:
- 864382567
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