Title Am I a murdered? : testament of a Jewish ghetto policeman / Calel Perechodnik, edited and translated by Frank Fox

Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents Foreword / Frank Fox -- Preface / Calel Perechodnik -- War -- The Aktion -- After the Aktion -- The Camp -- Warsaw -- The Last Days of Calel Perechodnik -- Letter to Pesach Perechodnik from Henryk Romanowski -- Last Will and Testament of Calel Perechodnik -- Afterword (from the Polish Edition) / Pawel Szapiro Summary In this moving memoir, a young Polish Jew chronicles his life under the Nazis. In the vain hope of protecting himself and his family, Calel Perechodnik makes the wrenching decision to become a ghetto policeman in a small town near Warsaw. The true tragedy of his choice becomes clear when during the Aktion he must witness his own wife and child being forced to board a train to the Treblinka extermination camp. Filled with loathing for the Germans, the Poles, his Jewish brethren, and himself, Perechodnik fled the ghetto to shelter with a Polish woman in Warsaw. In the course of 105 terror-filled days in hiding, he poured out his poignant story. Written while Nazi boots pounded the streets of the neighborhood and while his tortured memory was painfully fresh, this memoir has a rare immediacy and raw power. Shortly before his death in 1944, he entrusted the precious diary to a Polish friend. The document was eventually deposited in the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem. Left nearly forgotten for half a century, it was finally published in Poland in 1993. We owe a great debt to historian Frank Fox for bringing us this sensitive translation, which reminds us anew of the power and truth of historical memory Notes Calel Perechodnik In this moving memoir, a young Polish Jew chronicles his life under the Nazis. In the vain hope of protecting himself and his family, Calel Perechodnik made the wrenching decision to become a ghetto policeman in a small town near Warsaw. The true tragedy of his choice becomes clear when during the Aktion he must witness his own wife and child forced to board a train to the Treblinka extermination camp. Filled with loathing for the Germans, the Poles, his Jewish brethren, and himself, Perechodnik fled the ghetto to shelter with a Polish woman in Warsaw. In the course of 105 terror-filled days in hiding, he poured out his poignant story. Shortly before his death in 1944, he entrusted the precious diary to a Polish friend. The document was eventually deposited in the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem. Left nearly forgotten for half a century, it was finally published in Poland in 1993 Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 23, 2020) Subject Perechodnik, Calel, 1916-1944. SUBJECT Perechodnik, Calel, 1916-1944 fast Pariser Friedenskonferenz 1919-1920 Paris Polish Delegation gnd Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Otwock -- Personal narratives World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- Poland -- Otwock Jews -- Poland -- Otwock -- Biography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Otwock -- Personal narratives World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- Poland -- Otwock Jews -- Poland -- Otwock -- Biography Collaborationists Jews Erlebnisbericht Juden Judenvernichtung Kollaboration Getto SUBJECT Otwock (Poland) -- Biography Otwock (Poland) -- Biography Subject Poland -- Otwock Warschau Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Personal narratives Autobiographies. Personal narratives. Biographies. Autobiographies. Récits personnels. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Fox, Frank, 1923-2016. ISBN 0429040032 9780429040030 9780429720871 0429720874 9780429700866 0429700865 9780429740886 0429740883

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