The stars bear witness

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Bernard Goldstein: The stars bear witness (1950, Gollancz)

295 pages

English language

Published Jan. 24, 1950 by Gollancz.

OCLC Number:
11223980

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In the book Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto Bernard Goldstein described the life prevailing in the ghetto and the heroic struggle of Jewish soldiers. His authority in Bund leadership, which he enjoyed before the war and his position in the Jewish underground during the war, described him in contemporary world historiography as the chronicler of the last hours of Jewish Warsaw.

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This is an amazing book. Bernard Goldstein was a humanist, a socialist, and an internationalist. He was a leading member of the social-democratic Jewish Bund party in Warsaw and was responsible for self-defense units of that organization. After WWII started, Goldstein escaped Warsaw, but, like some other leading Bund activists, went back to the city to participate in its defense and remained since the party wished some of its leading activists to assist with organizing the Jewish population in the hard times of the occupation. Goldstein spent the war in the Warsaw ghetto, doing his best to assist others and to ensure the party operations there. He was one of the organizers of the uprising, though had to escape the ghetto before it started in order to acquire weapons, and was not able to join the fighters. He did much to assist the survivors after the rebellion. Later, he took …

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Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Warsaw.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.