The Scroll of Agony
Subtitle: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan
Contributors: Abraham Isaac Katsh (Editor); Isreal Gutman (Foreword)
Edition: 1st Indiana University Press Ed edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: August 31, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780253335340
Subjects: European history: Second World War; Jewish studies; Other prose: from c 1900 -; The Holocaust; Second World War, 1939-1945; Jewish Holocaust Personal Narratives; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; Poland; Historical - Holocaust; World War, 1939-1945; Historical - General; Holocaust; Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Kaplan, Chaim Aron,; Persecutions; Personal narratives; Warsaw
First sentence: DURING THE MORNING hours of the first of September, 1939, war broke out between Germany and Poland and, indirectly, between Germany and Poland's allies, England and France.