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OverviewThis text features the memoirs of Simha Rotem and his experiences of the uprising in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw in 1943. He describes the terrible battle, how he assumed a false Aryan identity as he found hiding places for survivors, and finally witnessed liberation by the Russians. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Simha (Kazik) Rotem , Barbara Harshav , Barbara HarshavPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.330kg ISBN: 9780300057973ISBN 10: 0300057970 Pages: 196 Publication Date: 28 December 1994 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviewsThe candid, fast-moving memoir of a significant member of the Warsaw Ghetto's fighting underground. This is a marked contrast to Yitzhak Zuckerman's recent A Surplus of Memory (1993), also translated by Harshav. Although they worked together in the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), the personalities of Antek and Kazik, to use their noms de guerre, could not have been more different. The older Antek (Zuckerman), head of the ZOB, was a consummate organizer, diplomat, and archivist, while the younger Kazik (Rotem) was a lover and fighter. Never hesitating to lead dangerous street-level missions dressed as a Gestapo collaborator or to venture through the vast Warsaw sewer system, Kazik argued bitterly with Antek against saving piles of records from the burning ghetto: And why endanger ourselves? For papers? For 'history'? Because he looked enough like a member of the Polish gentile working class among whom he had grown up, Kazik operated as a tough member of the Polish resistance who could intimidate uncooperative Jews and gentiles. After the ghetto was systematically destroyed, Kazik, in fact, didn't hesitate to join the anti-Semitic Armia Krajowa Polish underground in its short-lived uprising against the Germans. His chutzpah is at its best when he cajoles these partisans into keeping up the fight so as not to be shamed by the superior resistance of the city's underfed and undersupplied Jews. He had the sensitivity to feel guilty when gorging on a farmer's banquet while his family and friends starved in their bunkers, but this guileless man of action wasn't one to pass up a good meal, an opportunity for revenge, or a love affair. Such qualities color this memoir with the personal, so that it transcends a historical document. The record of these desperate, brave days is enriched by Kazik's salty, active personality. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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