Description: Dr. Kessler, a Jewish attorney from Lwow, Poland, gives an eyewitness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in his diary. In vivid, raw, documentary style, he describes his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, the Janowska Concentration Camp, and in an underground bunker where he and 23 other Jews were hidden by a courageous Polish farmer and his family.
Review Quotes: "The Wartime Diary of Edmund Kessler is a slim volume with considerable power. In prose and poetry, Kessler describes the conditions of Jewish life in the large but understudied ghetto of Lwow, Poland. His observations are keen, precise, his tone reserved and understated. He writes simply: "needless to say, conditions were difficult." Elsewhere he says: "I owe my survival to the fact that admirable people are still in the world."--Michael Berenbaum, Director of Sigi Ziering Institute, Professor of Jewish Studies