CONDEMNED TO LIFE - The Diaries and Life of Chajka Klinger

 Avihu Ronen

NIS 182.00

In 1943, Chajka Klinger, a key female activist in the Jewish Fighting Organization
in Będzin, Poland, was “condemned to life,” chosen by her friends to survive the
battle for their existence in order to document their stories. Her diary reveals
her anguish as she describes the deportations, the death of loved ones, and the
torture she underwent. After her escape from Nazi-occupied Europe, she tried
to build a new life for herself in Israel with her husband and three children, but
in April 1958, on the eve of the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, she
took her own life.
Written by her son, Professor Avihu Ronen, Condemned to Life moves seamlessly
between Chajka’s narrative, the historical context, and the author’s personal
journey to remember his mother whom he lost at a young age, intimately
documenting her life, struggles, and death through stories from those who
knew her. The book also confronts contentious historiographical issues,
including the mythologizing of the ghetto uprisings, the role of the Judenrat,
and the conflict between personal and collective memory.
Condemned to Life is an extraordinary portrait of Chajka Klinger, her comrades ,
and the role of the underground in Nazi-occupied Europe. Dedicated to
telling the story of these young fighters and preserving their memory, Ronen’s
masterful blend of biography and meticulous historical research will move,
inspire, and enlighten readers for generations.

In 1943, Chajka Klinger, a key female activist in the Jewish Fighting Organization
in Będzin, Poland, was “condemned to life,” chosen by her friends to survive the
battle for their existence in order to document their stories. Her diary reveals
her anguish as she describes the deportations, the death of loved ones, and the
torture she underwent. After her escape from Nazi-occupied Europe, she tried
to build a new life for herself in Israel with her husband and three children, but
in April 1958, on the eve of the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, she
took her own life.
Written by her son, Professor Avihu Ronen, Condemned to Life moves seamlessly
between Chajka’s narrative, the historical context, and the author’s personal
journey to remember his mother whom he lost at a young age, intimately
documenting her life, struggles, and death through stories from those who
knew her. The book also confronts contentious historiographical issues,
including the mythologizing of the ghetto uprisings, the role of the Judenrat,
and the conflict between personal and collective memory.
Condemned to Life is an extraordinary portrait of Chajka Klinger, her comrades ,
and the role of the underground in Nazi-occupied Europe. Dedicated to
telling the story of these young fighters and preserving their memory, Ronen’s
masterful blend of biography and meticulous historical research will move,
inspire, and enlighten readers for generations.

מפרט המוצר
Year 2025
ISBN 978-965-308-706-4
Size 15.5 x 23.5
כריכה hard
Publisher יד ושם
Translator מצרפתית: עדה פלדור
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Author :Yehuda Bacon

World-renowned Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor Yehuda Bacon began keeping adiary 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 remembers his past, contemplates his present, and  imagines his future Bacon was born in Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. In 1942, aged thirteen, he was deported with his family to Theresienstadt. In 1943 he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was interned in the family camp; a few months later, he was among a group of teens selected to work as forced laborers. Bacon survived death marches to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen before he was finally liberated, only to discover that his family had been murdered, aside from one sister who had left Czechoslovakia before the war. Upon his return to Czechoslovakia, Bacon lived in a provisionary youth  home run by the humanist Přemysl Pitter. In 1946, Bacon immigrated to Eretz Israel and studied at the Bezalel Academy of . Arts and Design, later becoming a professor of graphics and drawing and achieving fame as an artist

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