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In the Beginning Was the Ghetto: Notebooks from Lodz
From February 1942 to July 1944, Oskar Rosenfeld served in the statistics department of the Lodz ghetto. A Jewish playwright and journalist, he kept his own records - meticulous and harrowing notes on life and conditions in the ghetto - for the fictionalized account he hoped to someday write. Upon the liquidation of the ghetto, he and the nearly eighty thousand remaining i...more
Hardcover, 344 pages
Published
November 27th 2002
by Northwestern University Press
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Oskar Rosenfeld was a writer before the war, though during the war he and many others were forced into Ghetto Litzmannstadt, the second largest Jewish ghetto in Poland after the German occupation. The Lodz ghetto was turned into an industrial center to provide goods and supplies for Nazi Germany. Rosenfeld worked in the statistics department, keeping record of supplies coming in and out of the ghetto, the numbers of deaths and the kinds of deaths. On his own time he kept notebooks detailing h...more
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This is in many ways similar to Korczak's Ghetto Diary; though the latter is much shorter and less detailed, both provide a haunting and vivid picture of life and death in their authors' respective ghettos. As for Rosenfeld's notebooks, never before have I been so enlightened as to what the Lodz ghetto was really like. Like Korczak, Rosenfeld was an established writer before the war with plenty of sterling talent, put to good use here. It's a shame that he died before he could turn his notes int...more
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