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The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
"In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us." This is Dawid Sierakowiak's final diary entry. Soon after writing it, the young author died of tuberculosis, exhaustion,...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
May 14th 1998
by Oxford University Press, USA
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This book is crucial to anyone studying the Holocaust. It is one thing to read about the events that happened but it is another to read a first hand account as the events are actually happening. It gives us a look into what happened inside the Ghettos in Nazi Germany and how not only the Nazi's were cruel to the inhabitants, but so were some of the wealthier Jews in the Ghetto who could afford more food. Or better yet, had key positions in order to gain more food for their families.
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I learned more from this book about what it meant to be a Jew trying to live in occupied Poland than anything I have ever read on this grim subject.
After finishing it I was left numb, wondering how many other lives of such promise were snuffed out by the twin evils of fascism and communism.
And how relentless starvation and fear can actually break a man's spirit, as it did his father's.
Heartbreaking. A very different diary indeed to the one Anne Frank kept.Dawid Sierakowiak
After finishing it I was left numb, wondering how many other lives of such promise were snuffed out by the twin evils of fascism and communism.
And how relentless starvation and fear can actually break a man's spirit, as it did his father's.
Heartbreaking. A very different diary indeed to the one Anne Frank kept.Dawid Sierakowiak
I am always so taken back by the trials of WWII. This book is inspiring.
You can read The Book Thief all you want. You can cry over it all you want. You can think the character of Death is really incredible all you want.
But it's nothing compared to a young man's authentic journal.
Dawid Sierakowiak's journal begins optimistically. He has high hopes for life, and is eager to learn and read. During the Nazi occupation of Lodz he and his family are confined to a ghetto, abused and humiliated daily, starving and sick, with no chance in sight of...more
But it's nothing compared to a young man's authentic journal.
Dawid Sierakowiak's journal begins optimistically. He has high hopes for life, and is eager to learn and read. During the Nazi occupation of Lodz he and his family are confined to a ghetto, abused and humiliated daily, starving and sick, with no chance in sight of...more
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I wonderful look at life in the Ghettos for people of Jewish faith during Hitler's reign of terror. I great story that every person interested in World War II and Holocaust history should read.
I finished this awhile ago. Man, is it depressing.
very moving story based on Davids diary made all the more sad by the fact that the diaries were only found after his death
A fifteen yr. old in the Lodz ghetto.
>anne frank
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Dawid Sierakowiak was born in Poland in July 1924. He began his diary when he was fourteen, before the German invasion of Poland, and continued it until April 1943. He and his family were confined to the Lodz Ghetto, where Dawid recorded the deportation of his mother, the death of his father, and the starvation and suffering of all. He died of tuberculosis and starvation in the ghetto on August 8,...more
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