"A precious record of Jewish life under Nazi rule." -- New YorkReview of Books
"Not only the material for history; it ishistory itself, agonizingly, triumphantly alive." -- SaturdayReview
Warsaw resident Chaim Kaplan's journal begins on September1, 1939, the day the Nazi blitzkrieg stunned the world -- the Jews of Poland most ofall. It ends in August 1942, when Kaplan realized that the Nazi noose was around hisneck. Today Kaplan's diary stands as an extraordinary record of the Nazi destructionof Warsaw's Jewish community. It is as timely as ever.