Research Catalog

Title

The wartime diary of Edmund Kessler : Lwow, Poland, 1942-1944 / 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.

Author

Kessler, Edmund, -1985

Publication

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2010.

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Details

Description

xvii, 165 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"In The Wartime Diary of Edmund Kessler, 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, 1942-1944. In vivid, raw, documentary style, he describes his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, 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 care-taker for the hidden Jews on his family's farm. Edmund's daughter, Renata Kessler, coordinated the book and has written the epilogue about her search for the story, which has taken her to Israel, Poland, and Lviv (Lwow), Ukraine. Renowned scholar Antony Polonsky contributes an insightful historical overview of the times in which the book takes place. A tremendous resource for historians, scholars, and all serious students of the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Jews of Poland

Uniform Title

• Przeżyć holokaust we Lwowie. English.
• Jews of Poland

Alternative Title

Przeżyć holokaust we Lwowie.

Subject

• Kessler, Edmund, -1985 > Diaries
• Janowska (Concentration camp)
• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1942-1944
• Jews > Ukraine > Lʹviv > Diaries
• Jews > Poland > Diaries
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Ukraine > Lʹviv > Personal narratives
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Personal narratives
• Jewish ghettos > Ukraine > Lʹviv > History > 20th century
• Jews > Persecutions > History > Ukraine > Lʹviv > 20th century
• Bunkers (Fortification) > Ukraine > Lʹviv Region > History > 20th century
• Lʹviv (Ukraine) > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Diaries
• History
• Personal narratives
• Diaries.
• History.
• Personal narratives.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781934843987 (hbk.)
• 1934843989 (hbk.)
• 9781934843994 (pbk.)
• 1934843997 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010000597

OCLC

• 468966009
• SCSB-11791954

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library