Holocaust chronicles : individualizing the Holocaust through diaries and other contemporaneous personal accounts / edited by Robert Moses Shapiro ; introduction by Ruth R. Wisse.

"A collection of papers originally presented at an international conference sponsored by the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair ... Yeshiva University, October 1993."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Individualization of the Holocaust / Aharon Appelfeld -- Landkentenish : Yiddish belles lettres in the Warsaw Ghetto / David G. Roskies -- Literature in the ghetto in the Polish language : Z otchlani, from the abyss / Rafael F. Scharf -- Who Korczak was and why we cannot know him / Richard Lourie -- Janusz Korczak on Planet Ro / Betty Jean Lifton -- "Will they dare?" : perceptions of threat in diaries from the Warsaw Ghetto / David Engel -- Two forms of Jewish resistance, two functions of Ringelblum's Oyneg Shabes archive / Ruta Sakowska --Diaries and memoirs from the Lodz Ghetto in Yiddish and Hebrew / Robert Moses Shapiro -- Individual experience in diaries from the Lodz Ghetto / Marian Turski -- Mendel Grossman : photographic bard of Ghetto Lodz / Pinchas Shaar -- Role of singing in the ghettos : between entertainment and witnessing / Gila Flam -- Vilna Ghetto diaries / Dina Porat -- Vilna and Warsaw, two ghetto diaries : Herman Kruk and Emanuel Ringelblum / Samuel David Kassow -- Two memoirs from the edge of destruction / Jan Tomasz Gross -- Holocaust in the diaries of Zofia Nalkowska, Maria Dabrowska, and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz / Magdalena M. Opalski -- Wartime diaries and letters on the Holocaust in Soviet archives / Yitshak Arad -- Unpublished diaries and memoirs in the archives of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland / Daniel Grinberg -- Diaries and oral history : reflections on methodological issues in Holocaust research / Nechama Tec -- Use of photographs as artifacts and evidence / Raye Farr -- Rabbinic works / Isaac Lewin.