Full name: The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom

Author: Adam Czerniakow Year: 1978 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781566632300 1566632307

Adam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23, 1942 on the face of it not an uncommon occurrence in those times. But there is more to the story than the tragic death of one man among so many millions. Czerniakow was for almost three years the chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat - a Jew, devoted to his people, who served as the Nazi-sponsored mayor of the Warsaw Ghetto. His personal dealings with the German authorities bring to this daily record of events a depth of knowledge, accuracy of detail, and panorama of view that was possible to no other participant in the epic prelude to the final doom of the largest captive Jewish community in Eastern Europe. This secret journal is not only the testimony of an unbearable personal burden but the documentary of the Ghetto s terminal agony. It is the most important diary to emerge from the Holocaust. "A tale of Kafkaesque horror." - Houston Chronicle. Similar books: Holocaust by Deborah Dwork While Six Million Died by Arthur D. Morse Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto by Emanuel Ringelblum Children in the Holocaust and World War II by Laurel Holliday The Diary of Mary Berg by Mary Berg After the Darkness by Elie Wiesel Konin by Theo Richmond I Remember Nothing More by Adina Blady Szwajger Perpetrators Victims Bystanders by Raul Hilberg Children of the Holocaust by Helen Epstein Denying the Holocaust by Deborah E. Lipstadt Schindler's Legacy by Elinor J. Brecher Never to Forget by Milton Meltzer Hidden Children by Jane Marks The Righteous by Martin Gilbert The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery