- Summary
- "This book comprises interviews with some of the last surviving veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw ghetto, accompanied by never previously published photographic "postcards" from a number of ghettoes, and a reconstruction of the only surviving contemporary list of those soldiers that strives to salvage vestiges of their stories from oblivion"-- Provided by publisher.
- Variant Title
- Conversations and stories about the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Series
- Jews of Poland
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Grupińska, Anka, author.
- Published
- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2023
- Locale
- Warsaw (Poland)
Poland
Warsaw
- Contents
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Part One. Still Circling: Conversations with Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization
Recording the Holocaust
What Was of Importance in the Ghetto? Nothing! Nothing! Don't Be Ridiculous!
Back Then, There Were Many Legends . . .
Someone Must Have Pushed That Closet up Flush from Outside . . .
I'm Telling You so Superficially Because I Don't Remember
Well, I'm Here, Aren't I?!
Truth Be Told, I Left My House in 1942 and Never Went Back
And That's All My Life Story
I Know What I Know, And I Remember What I Remember
None of It Is of Any Significance
Part Two. Rereading the List: Stories about the Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization..
List of Those Who Fell in the Defense of the Warsaw Ghetto
A Rereading of the List
A Cemetery of Letters, a Cemetery of Words.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Taylor-Kucia, Jessica, translator.
- Notes
-
Translation of: "Ciągle po kole" and "Odczytanie Listy."--Publisher.
"I Came Home and There Was No One There is a composition of two titles in a single volume for readers in English."--CIP galley.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part One. Still Circling: Conversations with Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization -- Recording the Holocaust -- What Was of Importance in the Ghetto? Nothing! Nothing! Don't Be Ridiculous! -- Back Then, There Were Many Legends . . . -- Someone Must Have Pushed That Closet up Flush from Outside . . . -- I'm Telling You so Superficially Because I Don't Remember -- Well, I'm Here, Aren't I?! -- Truth Be Told, I Left My House in 1942 and Never Went Back -- And That's All My Life Story -- I Know What I Know, And I Remember What I Remember -- None of It Is of Any Significance -- Part Two. Rereading the List: Stories about the Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization.. -- List of Those Who Fell in the Defense of the Warsaw Ghetto -- A Rereading of the List -- A Cemetery of Letters, a Cemetery of Words.
