Yad Vashem Publications

Hanna Temkin

In My Involuntary Journeys, Hanna Temkin shares her story for the first time, shedding light on lesser-known aspects of Jewish life and survival in Eastern Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust. Moreover, Hanna’s story is an inspiring tale of female empowerment and serves as a testament to her ability to overcome the worst odds.

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.

Editor: Michal Unger

Editor: Jean Ancel | Revised and annotated by Leon Volovici and Miriam Caloianu

Written and Illustrated by Bedřich Fritta

Edited by Jean Ancel

Otto Weiss | Editor: Ruth Bondy

Editors: Yitzhak Arad, Israel Gutman, Abraham Margaliot

Exhibition Curator and Editor: Yehudit Shendar

Editors: Bella Gutterman and Naomi Morgenstern

Ilse Weber

Head Curator: Vivian Uria

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. 

Tadeusz Zaderecki

Edited by Ewa Koźmińska-Frejlak

Edited by Walter Zwi Bacharach

Shmuel Krakowski

Jean Ancel

Exhibition Curator and Editor: Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg

Yitzhak Arad

Edited by Arkadi Zeltser

Henry Foner (Heinz Lichtwitz)

Editors: Robert Rozett, Iael Nidam-Orvieto

Jean Ancel