Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan

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"A precious record of Jewish life under Nazi rule." New York Review of Books "Not only the material for history; it is history itself agonizingly triumphantly alive." Saturday Review Warsaw resident Chaim Kaplans journal begins on September 1 1939 the day the Nazi blitzkrieg stunned the worldthe Jews of Poland most of all. It ends in August 1942 when Kaplan realized that the Nazi noose was around his neck. Today Kaplans diary stands as an extraordinary record of the Nazi destruction of Warsaws Jewish community. It is as timely as ever.