Sara Selver-Urbach
Auteur de Through the Window of My Home: Recollections from the Lodz Ghetto
Œuvres de Sara Selver-Urbach
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Selver-Urbach, Sarah
Zelwer-Urbach, Sarah - Date de naissance
- 1923-04-25
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Poland
- Lieux de résidence
- Mittelsteine concentration camp
Auschwitz, Poland
Lodz, Poland - Professions
- Holocaust survivor
memoirist - Relations
- Lipszyc, Rywka (friend)
- Courte biographie
- Sara Selver-Urbach's post-World War II memoir is one of the most important primary accounts of a Holocaust survivor. She and her family were confined to the Łódź Ghetto, then deported by the Nazis to the death camp at Auschwitz. From there, Sara was sent to forced labor camps at Mittelsteine and Grafenort, where she survived to the liberation. Her clandestine diary and notes, written on scraps of paper in Polish and Hebrew, allowed her to provide details that were lost for so many others. Her memoir Through the Window of My Home: Recollections from the Ghetto Łódź, was originally published in 1964 in Hebrew in Israel, and appeared in English in 1972.
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 5
- Popularité
- #1,360,914
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 1
This would be a quite unremarkable Lodz Ghetto memoir were it not for the most REmarkable detailed diary in the last third of the book, between November 1944 and May 1945, when the author was working in the office in a forced-labor camp. Writing mostly on the backs of used vouchers, she poured out her heart, all her misery and despair and worry about her brothers she'd been separated from at Auschwitz, and the brutality at the camp with everyone fed starvation diets and girls being beaten badly, sometimes to death, over nothing at all. Yet she was determined to survive.
I've stopped caring about anything. I'm being ground to dust, I've stopped existing, my "me" is a jagged piece of pain which is seized from time to time with outbursts of fury and despair. I feel that I can't go on, but know I can, and that I will, and for who knows how much longer.
I try to get my hands on every Holocaust diary I can find. I'd never heard about this one. The book's description material didn't mention it, and I don't think the diary has been published elsewhere.… (plus d'informations)