Holocaust diaries - on postwar death and resurrection

Rice, Monika
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Title Holocaust diaries - on postwar death and resurrection : a tale of two doctors.
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 43,2 (2015) 109-141
Description Juxtaposes two Holocaust "diaries" deposited at the Yad Vashem archives. The first, written allegedly by a fictional Dr. Michał Goldfein, is in fact a novel in the form of a diary written in 1947 by Dr. Jakub Herzig. However, Dr. Herzig is also a Holocaust survivor, and his text is based on his wartime experiences and those of his relative, Dr. Goldman. It narrates the story of the fictional Dr. Goldfein, who lost all of his family during the German occupation of Poland, and his medical profession in postwar and antisemitic Poland, and thus can represent the experiences of a large part of the Jewish survivors in Poland. The second "diary" is a postwar memoir written by renowned physician and scientist Julian Aleksandrowicz (1908-1988), who, as a Polish patriot, preferred to suppress his Jewish identity and joined a detachment of the underground Polish Home Army. The "diaries" represent two different paths taken by returning Jewish survivors in Poland: resignation in the face of the loss of their pre-war world and subsequent emigration, and integration into postwar Polish reality, be it good or bad. Contends that, with some precautions, such texts can be used by researchers. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
National Library system number 990005744930705171
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באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

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