Description
Book SynopsisBased on more than fifty diaries of Holocaust victims of all ages, written while the events described were taking place. This book illuminates the spiritual and physical devastation experienced by European Jewry during the Holocaust, showing how Jews chose life and the spirit of life in the midst of the inferno.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Opening Remarks
The Writer and the Writing
The Consciousness of the Book
The Measure of Time
The Chronicle of the Holy
Assailing God
The Crumbling of Creation
Meaning Undone
The Fragmentation of Home and Family
The Assault on the Feminine
The Suffocation of the Child
The Human Image Defiled
Death and the Death of Death
Clinging to Life
Reopening Remarks: The Assignation of the Reader
Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index
