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    <body><![CDATA[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.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51634055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is in many ways similar to Korczak's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Ghetto Diary" title="Ghetto Diary">Ghetto Diary</a>; 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 ghe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38371357">more...</a>]]></body>
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