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