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Diary From Hell in Transnistria 1942–1944
Lipman Kunstadt | Edited by Sarah Rosen and Dalia Ofer
I decided to stop writing the diary and to destroy the pages… I eventually overcame the despair and listened to the counterargument…a miracle may occur and your fragmentary writings will be the only remaining memory of Transnistria. (Lipman Kunstadt, August 26, 1942)
Diary from Hell in Transnistria is a painfully vivid and intricate account of life in the Dzhurin ghetto in Transnistria, written by Lipman Kunstadt, who was deported there from Radauţi, Romania, with his wife, his children, his mother, and his sister on October 14, 1941. Kunstadt, who was well-educated and a journalist, was appointed secretary of the Jewish council in the Dzhurin ghetto, where he had access to a great deal of information about its inner workings. He began writing his diary in Yiddish on April 11, 1942, at great risk, sparing no criticism against the ghetto leadership.
Wilhelm Filderman: Memoirs and Diaries, volume 2 – 1940-1952
Editor: Jean Ancel | Revised and annotated by Leon Volovici and Miriam Caloianu
These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940–February 1944
Emanuele Artom, Edited by Guri Schwarz
The Cold Shower of a New Life: The Postwar Diaries of a Child Survivor, Volume 5 - October 13, 1946–March 2, 1947
Author: Yehuda Bacon
Editors: Sharon Kangisser Cohen and Dorota Julia Nowak
What a life it will be, Jerusalem! I know very well what the wordmeans. Like every association, it spans my entire life. Notebook 8, August 12, 1946; World-renowned Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor Yehuda Bacon began to keep a diary in July 1945, while living in a youth home in Štiřín, Czechoslovakia, shortly after his liberation. During the past seven decades, Bacon has filled over 240 notebooks. His diary is a mosaic of words and drawings through which he attempts to express his past, contemplate his present, and imagine his future.
OUR PARTISAN KINGDOM - From the Vilna Ghetto to the Bielski Family Camp
Lazar Engles (Engelstern)
The moment we first set foot on the soil of the Naliboki Pushcha, the atmosphere was completely different. We felt a new kind of security, as if we were in our own partisan kingdom…. We had survived so many dangers, but we were now among Jews in the forest.
Prior to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Lazar Engles (Engelstern) lived a peaceful and fulfilled life in his beloved city of Vilna with his wife and two daughters. The Nazi occupation of the city in June 1941 and its subsequent ghettoization marked a rapid escalation of horrors for Lazar and his family.