The Wartime Diary Of Edmund Kessler

Dr. Kessler a Jewish attorney from Lwow Poland gives an eye-witness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in his diary between the years 1942 and 1944. In vivid raw documentary style he describes his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto in the Janowska Concentration Camp and in an underground bunker where he and twenty-three other Jews were hidden by a courageous Polish farmer and his family. The book includes a chapter written by Kazimierz Kalwinski who as a teenager was a caretaker for the hidden Jews on his family's farm. Edmund's daughter Renata Kessler coordinated the book and has written an epilogue about her search for the story which has taken her to Israel Poland and Lviv Ukraine. Renowned scholar Antony Polonsky contributes an insightful historical overview of the times in which the book takes place. This volume is a tremendous resource for historians scholars and those interested in the Holocaust.