Name: Adam Paskow Date: July 23, 1942 Age: 43 Time: 2:00 p.m. I find myself hiding from today’s events by scribbling in this notebook. This is cowardly, I know, the hiding, and perhaps I shouldn’t write any of it down for posterity. Perhaps I should pretend I spent the day distributing false working papers or hiding children in attics or shoving as many people as possible under holes in the walls to imaginary safety on the outside. But I have done none of these things. I have simply sat here at the kitchen table, pretending that what is happening outside isn’t happening. Yesterday we saw the
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