The Wartime Diary of Edmund Kessler: Lwow, Poland, 1942–1944, edited by Renata Kessler (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010), xvii + 165 pp., hardcover, 30.00, paperback, 19.00
This volume, lovingly brought to fruition by Renata Kessler, daughter of Holocaust survivor Edmund Kessler, includes contributions by several authors, but Edmund Kessler's wartime journal and poems are at its center. Unlike the original Polish title, Przeżyć Holokaust we Lwowie (To Survive the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 150-152 |
| Review of: | The wartime diary (Boston : Acad. Studies Press, 2010) (Levine, Madeline G.)
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| Summary: | This volume, lovingly brought to fruition by Renata Kessler, daughter of Holocaust survivor Edmund Kessler, includes contributions by several authors, but Edmund Kessler's wartime journal and poems are at its center. Unlike the original Polish title, Przeżyć Holokaust we Lwowie (To Survive the Holocaust in Lwów) (2007), the English title leads one to expect that the bulk of the book is the somewhat misleadingly labeled “diary.” In fact, Kessler's concise account of what happened in Lwów between the first days of German occupation in July 1941 and the liquidation of the Lwów ghetto in the summer of 1943 occupies only thirty-four pages. In these pages Kessler's focus is almost entirely on the communal suffering of the Jews, with very little attention to his own experience. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dct009 |