Resources for Moshe

Books

• In the Beginning Was the Ghetto: Notebooks from Łódź

  Rosenfeld, Oskar, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2002.

  Provides full text translations of 17 of the author’s research notebooks and writings from his work chronicling life in the Łódź ghetto. Includes editor’s notes.
• Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland Before the Holocaust.

  Shandler, Jeffrey, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

  Autiobiographies of a variety of young Polish Jews written for the YIVO Institute in the 1930s.
• The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto

  Sierakowiak, Dawid. Author: Dawid Sierakowiak, Alan Adelson, ed., Kamil Turowski, trans. , New York and Oxford, 1996.

  Diary of 15-year-old in the Lodz Ghetto.
• Lodz Ghetto: A History

  Trunk, Isaiah. Robert Moses Shapiro, trans., Bloomington, IN, 2006.

  Scholarly work written by a survivor from Lodz. Includes some primary sources and documents.
• Children of a Vanished World

  Visniac, Roman, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

  Photos of children in pre-war Eastern Europe.
• In Those Terrible Days: Writings from the Lodz Ghetto

  Zelkowicz, Josef, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2002

  Reproduces writings and accounts created by the author while working inside the Łódź ghetto. Includes photographs and footnotes.
• Destined to Live: A True Story of a Child in the Holocaust

  Gruener, Ruth with Rachel Klein, New York: Scholastic, 2007.

  A compelling autobiography of a child hidden in Poland during the Holocaust.

Websites

• JewishGen: Brzeziny

  http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/brzeziny/brzeziny.html

  Full translation of the Yizkor Book for Brzeziny, Poland
• Give Me Your Children: Voices from the Lodz Ghetto

  https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/voices-from-lodz-ghetto

  An online exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• The Auschwitz Album

  http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/home_auschwitz_album.html

  Online exhibition of Yad Vashem

Films

• Image Before My Eyes

  88 minutes, 2006

  The story of Jewish life in Poland between the two World Wars. Includes scenes of urban and rural life, and covers the rise and flourishing of the many religious and secular economic, political, and social movements.
• Lodz Ghetto

  118 minutes, 1989

  This film examines the nightmarish struggle for survival that was the daily lot of the people trapped in the longest lasting Jewish ghetto.
• The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz

  55 minutes, 1982

  Using archival footage, this documentary narrates the story of one of the Holocaust’s most controversial figures.
• The Photographer

  52 minutes, 1998

  Considers a collection of 400 color slides made by amateur Nazi photographer and chief accountant of Łódź ghetto, Walter Genewein, for whom taking photographs of human misery was a hobby. Dr. Arnold Mostowicz, a Łódź ghetto survivor, provides a first-hand account of one of World War II’s darkest chapters.