Samuel Kassow, A Ghetto Testament: Rachel Auerbach's Ghetto Memoirs
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Edward and Belle Freid Memorial Lecture
Samuel Kassow (Trinity College, Connecticut)
A Ghetto Testament: Rachel Auerbach's Ghetto Memoirs
Of the 60 people that the historian Emanuel Ringelblum recruited to the secret Warsaw ghetto archive, there were only three survivors, including Rachel Auerbach. After the war, in Poland and in Israel Auerbach dedicated her life to preserving Ringelblum’s legacy and the memory of the Holocaust. This talk will discuss her extraordinary Warsaw ghetto memoirs, based on her wartime diaries and journals.
Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been been a visiting professor at many institutions and was on the team of scholars that planned the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Among his books is Who will Write our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Ghetto Archive (Indiana, 2007), which received the Orbis Prize of the AAASS and which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. It has been translated into eight languages. His translation of Rachel Auerbach's Warsaw Testament has just been published by the White Goat Press. A child of Holocaust survivors, Professor Kassow was born in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany.