"A precious record of Jewish life under Nazi rule." --New York Review of Books "Not only the material for history; it is history itself, agonizingly, triumphantly alive." --Saturday Review Warsaw resident Chaim Kaplan's journal begins on September 1, 1939, the day the Nazi blitzkrieg...
Smuggled out of the ghetto and carefully preserved in a kerosene can on a farm outside Warsaw, Chaim Kaplan's diary, originally recorded in beautiful, disciplined Hebrew script, is a detailed eyewitness report of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and a unique account of the destruction...