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Memoirs of a Jew who was born in Warsaw. A teenager when the war broke out, he lived with his family in the Warsaw ghetto. His sister was killed there, but his parents survived the ghetto due to his smuggling of food from the "Aryan side". He was a member of the Żydowski Związek Wojskowy (Jewish Military Union), and took part in the ghetto uprising. After the fall of the ghetto Eisner's family was transported to Majdanek, where his father died....

Personal writings document the progression of the Holocaust through the Lodz ghetto.

From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910-1991) was a member of an official team documenting the implementation of Nazi policies in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. Covertly, he captured on film scores of both quotidian and intimate moments of Jewish life. In 1944, he buried thousands of negatives in an attempt to save this secret record. After the war, Ross returned to Poland to retrieve them. Although some were destroyed by nature...

Contains primary source material.

"The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz. Through its linked ghettos and that of its neighboring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labor or the gas chambers. The principal civilian administrator of Bedzin, Udo Klausa, was a happily married family man. He was also responsible for implementing Nazi policies towards the Jews in his area - inhumane processes that were the precursors of genocide. Yet he...