Contributor Biographical Information} The Warsaw Diary Of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom (Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) - Softcover

A major event! -- Herman Wouk A nightmare Alice-in-Wonderland...intensely dramatic in the aggregate for all the matter-of-factness of individual entries...The Diary of Adam Czerniakow makes a deep, deep impression. -- Peter Osnos * The Review of Higher Education * Meticulously factual and nonetheless moving. * The New Yorker * Enormously evocative. -- Dorothy Rabinowitz * The Wall Street Journal * Without parallel. -- Isaiah Trunk, author of Judenrat A tale of Kafaesque horror. * Houston Chronicle * An astonishing record of desperate adaptation and resilient will. * The New Leader *

Before he killed himself in 1942, Czerniakow was for almost three years the Nazisponsored mayor of the Warsaw Ghettoyet a Jew, devoted to his people. This secret journal is not only the testimony of an unbearable personal burden but the documentary of the Ghetto's terminal agony. It is the most important diary to emerge from the Holocaust. A tale of Kafkaesque horror. Houston Chronicle