num_pages: 271
description: After the liberation of the Lodz Ghetto, Dawid Sierakowiak's notbooks were found stacked on a cookstove, ready to be burned for heat. Young Sierakowiak was one of more than 60,000 Jews who perished in that notorious urban slave camp, a man-made hell which was the longest surviving concentration of Jews in Nazi Europe. The diary comprises a remarkable legacy left to humanity by its teenage author. It is one of the most fastidiously detailed accounts ever rendered of modern life in human bondage. The luxury of life was never returned to David, but a new awareness of it richness can be our reward for reading the diary of this brilliantly and brutally deprived young human being.
language: English
title: The Diary of Dawid Sierakowak
titlecomplete: The Diary of Dawid Sierakowak
genres: Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Jewish, School, Autobiography, Holocaust, Biography Memoir, History, World War II
ratings_count: 510
places: Lodz
publisher: Jewish Heritage Project, Inc.