Scroll of Agony
Subtitle: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan
Contributors: Israel Gutman (Editor); Abraham I. Katsh (Translator)
Edition: 1st Indiana University Press Ed edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: July 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780253212931
Subjects: European history: Second World War; Jewish studies; Other prose: from c 1900 -; The Holocaust; Second World War, 1939-1945; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - Holocaust; World War, 1939-1945; Historical - General; Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Kaplan, Chaim Aron,; Persecutions; Personal narratives; Poland; 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.