The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia written by Wendy Lower and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia examines the contents and context of a rare diary written by a Jewish man from Nazi-occupied Poland. Serving as both a record and an artifact of Samuel Golfard’s life, the diary details his attempt to make sense of and resist the event that ultimately destroyed him. Wendy Lower integrates photographs, newspaper articles, documents, and testimonies to create a more complete picture of Golfard’s experiences and writings. She also traces the diary’s own journey after Golfard’s death, from 1943 Poland to the present day.