Words to Outlive Us Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto

by Grynberg, Michal; Boehm, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780312422684
• ISBN10: 0312422687
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

This collective memoir-a mosaic of individual diaries, journals, and accounts-follows the fate of the Warsaw Jews from the first bombardments of the Polish capital to the razing of the Jewish district: the frantic exchange of apartments as the walls first go up; the daily battle against starvation and disease; the moral ambiguities confronting Jewish bureaucracies under Nazi rule; the ingenuity of smugglers; and the acts of resistance. Stunning in their immediacy, these urgent accounts challenge us to imagine the unimaginable.

Author Biography

The late Michal Grynberg, an associate of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, devoted decades of his life to compiling and publishing firsthand accounts from ghettos throughout Poland.

Table of Contents

Map	xi
Introduction by Philip Boehm	1	(14)
1 LIFE WITHIN THE WALLS	15	(38)
2 GHETTO INSTITUTIONS	53	(48)
3 ROUNDUPS, SELECTIONS, AND DEPORTATIONS	101	(104)
4 PASSIVE AND ACTIVE RESISTANCE INSIDE THE GHETTO	205	(100)
5 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALLS	305	(88)
6 LIBERATION	393	(48)
Notes	441	(8)
Glossary	449	(4)
Biographies	453	(24)
Translator's Acknowledgments	477	(2)
Index	479