Overview
First published in 1945, within a few weeks of the ""Diary of Anne Frank"", with which it was reviewed in the New York Times, this important chronicle of daily life within the Warsaw Ghetto represents the first and lengthiest eye-witness account of Jews' experiences under Nazi rule in Poland. Available once more for the first time in over 50 years, here the teenage Mary Berg records both the day-to-day deprivations and overt persecution that were a part of everyday life in the ghetto, as well as the resilience, the secret societies and the acts of resistence at the forefront of the fight against the Nazi terror. This a work remarkable for its authenticity, detail and poignancy. But it is not only as factual report on the life and death of a people that ""The Diary of Mary Berg"" ranks with the most noteworthy of documents of the Second World War. This is the personal story of a life-loving girl's encounter with the unparalleled human suffering, a uniquely illuminating insight into one of the darkest chapters of history.
Full Product Details
Author: Mary Berg ,
Susan Lee Pentlin
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9781851684724
ISBN 10: 1851684727
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 26 October 2006
Audience:
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Replaced By: 9781851685851
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
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Reviews
""Mary Berg's diary records the dignity of man, his moral consciousness. Once again we are reminded that amid blazing homes, flame-swept streets and mass murders there were human beings who admitted no defeat."" New York Times, April 1945.Barry Marcus - Past lecturer at the University of Witwartersgrand and Yeshiva College in Johannesberg and is currently Rov of the Central Synagogue in Great Portland St.""I recommend the Diary to anyone seeking a genuine insight into 'life' in Nazi occupied Poland. An impressive and touching tale of survival.""
"""Mary Berg's diary records the dignity of man, his moral consciousness. Once again we are reminded that amid blazing homes, flame-swept streets and mass murders there were human beings who admitted no defeat."" New York Times, April 1945.Barry Marcus - Past lecturer at the University of Witwartersgrand and Yeshiva College in Johannesberg and is currently Rov of the Central Synagogue in Great Portland St.""I recommend the Diary to anyone seeking a genuine insight into 'life' in Nazi occupied Poland. An impressive and touching tale of survival."""
Mary Berg's diary records the dignity of man, his moral consciousness. Once again we are reminded that amid blazing homes, flame-swept streets and mass murders there were human beings who admitted no defeat. New York Times, April 1945.Barry Marcus - Past lecturer at the University of Witwartersgrand and Yeshiva College in Johannesberg and is currently Rov of the Central Synagogue in Great Portland St. I recommend the Diary to anyone seeking a genuine insight into 'life' in Nazi occupied Poland. An impressive and touching tale of survival.
Author Information
Professor Susan Pentlin of Central Missouri State University is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, MO, and the leading expert on this work.
