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Œuvres de Aryeh Klonicki

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Klonicki, Aryeh
Autres noms
KLONICKI, Aryeh
Date de naissance
1906
Date de décès
1943
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Ukraine
Professions
diarist
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Aryeh Klonicki and his wife Malwina were Ukrainian Jews in the Galicia region who went into hiding from the Nazis during World War II. They had given their infant son Adam to a Christian family for safekeeping.
In his diary, Aryeh anguishes over the fate of the Jewish people and his own family. It was translated into English by Avner Tomaschoff and published in 1973 as The Diary of Adam's Father: The Diary of Aryeh Klonicki (Klonymus) and his wife Malwina with Letters Concerning the
Fate of Their

Child Adam.

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I would recommend this book only for Holocaust scholars/junkies: to the average reader it wouldn't hold much interest. It's the diary of Aryeh Klonicki, a Jew hiding with his wife in Ukraine during World War II. They'd given their baby son, Adam, to a Christian family for safekeeping.

In many respects this is a typical diary: Aryeh writes of persecution and anguishes over the fate of his people and his own family. Especially poignant, I found, were the letters in the back of the book. After the war, Aryeh's relatives in Israel wrote to various people trying to find Adam. Eventually they found out he had survived the war and was alive and well, but he considered himself to be Ukrainian, was embarrassed to have Jewish relatives, and wanted nothing to do with them.… (plus d'informations)
 
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meggyweg | Aug 27, 2009 |

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