03982nam 2200769 a 450 991081939570332120230725053732.01-61811-122-110.1515/9781618111227(CKB)2550000000062799(EBL)3110397(OCoLC)864382567(SSID)ssj0000565376(PQKBManifestationID)12243970(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565376(PQKBWorkID)10529057(PQKB)10614040(MiAaPQ)EBC3110397(DE-B1597)540968(DE-B1597)9781618111227(Au-PeEL)EBL3110397(CaPaEBR)ebr10509022(CaONFJC)MIL546868(EXLCZ)99255000000006279920100115d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe wartime diary of Edmund Kessler[electronic resource] 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 ShapiroBoston Academic Studies Press20101 online resource (160 p.)Jews of PolandDescription based upon print version of record.1-934843-98-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Jews of Poland.JewsUkraineLʹvivDiariesJewsPolandDiariesHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)UkraineLʹvivPersonal narrativesHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)PolandPersonal narrativesJewish ghettosUkraineLʹvivHistory20th centuryJewsPersecutionsUkraineLʹvivHistory20th centuryBunkers (Fortification)UkraineLʹviv RegionHistory20th centuryLʹviv (Ukraine)BiographyJewsJewsHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Jewish ghettosHistoryJewsPersecutionsHistoryBunkers (Fortification)History940.53/15092BKessler Edmundd. 1985.1680726Kalwinski Kaziemierz1680727Sicher Lusia1680728MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819395703321The wartime diary of Edmund Kessler4049612UNINA