Yad Vashem Publications

Edited by Walter Zwi Bacharach

Editors: Robert Rozett, Iael Nidam-Orvieto

Edited by Arkadi Zeltser

Jean Ancel

Shmuel Krakowski

Yitzhak Arad

Exhibition Curator and Editor: Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg

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. 

Head Curator: Vivian Uria

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

Ilse Weber

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

Editor: Michal Unger

Emanuele Artom, Edited by Guri Schwarz

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.

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.

Miriam Offer

A last few words to honor you, the Jewish doctors. What canI tell you, my beloved colleagues and companions in misery?  You are a part of all of us. Slavery, hunger, deportation, thosedeath figures in our ghetto were also your legacy. And you byyour work could give the henchman the answer Non omnis moriar, I shall not wholly die. (Dr. Israel Milejkowski, Director, Judenrat Health Department in the Warsaw Ghetto, October 1942)

White Coats in the Ghetto narrates the struggle of the Jews to survive in the Warsaw ghetto while also preserving their humanity during the Holocaust. Based on a vast quantity of official and personal documents, it describes the elaborate medical system that the Jews established in the ghetto to cope with the lethal conditions imposed on them by the Nazis, and the tragic ethical dilemmas that the medical teams confronted under German occupation. 

Yehuda Bacon, Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen and Dorota Julia Nowak

Yehuda Bacon, Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen and Dorota Julia Nowak