I came home and there was no one there : conversations and stories about the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto / Hanka Grupinska ; translated by Jessica Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grupińska, Anka, author.

Contributor:

Taylor-Kucia, Jessica, translator.

Series:

Jews of Poland Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Poland)--History.

Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Poland).

Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Warsaw.

Jews.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

World War, 1939-1945--Registers of dead--Poland--Warsaw.

World War, 1939-1945.

Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943--Personal narratives.

Warsaw (Poland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (556 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2023]

Summary:

This book comprises interviews with the last veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization (%9;OB), accompanied by never previously published photographic "postcards" from ghettos in the Warsaw region, and a reconstruction of the only existing list of the (%9;OB) soldiers.The first part of the book, a collection of conversations with the last soldiers of the %9;OB, which fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising, is called "Still Circling". The first of the interviews was recorded in 1985 with %9;OB commander Marek Edelman, and the last another conversation with him from 2000. Grupińska's other interlocutors are also %9;OB veterans-rank-and-file soldiers, men and women. They relate the stories of their homes and backgrounds-some were Bundists, others from Zionist or religious families-followed by their recollections of how they experienced and remembered the uprising. This provides several unique perspectives on shared episodes. Images include portraits of Grupińska's interlocutors, as well as never previously published photographs of the ghetto and its surroundings that are reminiscent of postcards.The second part of the book, "Rereading the List," is intended to function like a litany of the names of the %9;OB members who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. This list was compiled by a group of fighters in 1943 and rediscovered by the author in 2000. Each name is accompanied by a short story about the fighter-sometimes only a sentence or two-as well as any available photograph of them. The list is followed by a reconstruction of the %9;OB army, its divisions, and the places they fought.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part One. Still Circling: Conversations with Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization

Recording the Holocaust

What Was of Importance in the Ghetto? Nothing! Nothing! Don't Be Ridiculous!

Back Then, There Were Many Legends. ..

Someone Must Have Pushed That Closet up Flush from Outside. ..

I'm Telling You so Superficially Because I Don't Remember

We Were Just Rank-And-File Soldiers

Well, I'm Here, Aren't I? !

Truth Be Told, I Left My House in 1942 and Never Went Back

And That's All My Life Story

I Know What I Know, and I Remember What I Remember

None of It Is of Any Significance

Part Two. Rereading the List: Stories about the Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization

Introduction

List of Those Who Fell in the Defense of the Warsaw Ghetto

A Rereading of the List

A Cemetery of Letters, a Cemetery of Words

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9798887192604

OCLC:

1390922700