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.
Moral Dilemmas among Jews in the Reality of the Holocaust
By Yitzhak Arad
It Happened on Our Planet offers a brutally honest insight into the horrifying decisions that the Jews had to make and the unbearable situations in which the Jews found themselves during this time. The publication of this important work will present generations to come with a better understanding of the complex reality of the Holocaust.
Luigi Fleischmann | Editor: Daniella Zaidman-Mauer
Chajka Klinger | Editor: Avihu Ronen
Moral Dilemmas among Jews in the Reality of the Holocaust
By Yitzhak Arad
It Happened on Our Planet offers a brutally honest insight into the horrifying decisions that the Jews had to make and the unbearable situations in which the Jews found themselves during this time. The publication of this important work will present generations to come with a better understanding of the complex reality of the Holocaust.
Moty Stromer | Foreword by David Silberklang
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.
Elisheva (Elka) Rubinstein
Yehuda Bacon, Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen and Dorota Julia Nowak