Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto

Brief Description: In the history of the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto stands as the enduring symbol of Jewish suffering and heroism. This collective memoir--a mosaic of individual diaries, journals, and accounts--follows the fate of the Warsaw Jews from the first bombardments of the Polish capital to the razing of the Jewish district. Illustrations. Biographical Note: The late Michal Grynberg, an associate of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, devoted decades of his life to compiling and publishing firsthand accounts from ghettos throughout Poland. Review Quotes: "Tells the story in a new way, with riveting immediacy. . . "The Diary of Anne Frank" was a poignant solo piece for cello. "Words to Outlive Us" is a work of full orchestral anguish." --"Time" "One can hardly imagine anything more authentic than these testimonials.. . . One has at times an almost theatrical sense of the many narrators stepping out individually from the darkness, each telling a piece of his or her story and then stepping back again." --"Los Angeles Times" "One comes away from the book stunned by the remarkable energy and willingness to resist that so many demonstrated but haunted by the recognition of how little that resistance availed." --"The New Yorker" "A devastating portrait. . . If one can read only one book on the Warsaw Ghetto, this is it." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) Review Citations:

Booklist 09/01/2002 pg. 53 (EAN 9780805058338, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 07/15/2002 pg. 63 (EAN 9780805058338, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2002 pg. 1009 (EAN 9780805058338, Hardcover)

New Yorker (The) 11/25/2002 pg. 107 (EAN 9780805058338, Hardcover)

Time 10/28/2002 pg. 65 (EAN 9780805058338, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Grynberg, Michal The late Michal Grynberg, an associate of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and a noted Polish scholar of the Holocaust, devoted decades of his life to compiling and publishing firsthand accounts from ghettos throughout Poland. Philip Boehm is the author of numerous translations from Polish and German, including works by Franz Kafka, Ida Fink, and Christoph Hein. Based in St. Louis, he is also a playwright and theater director. Contributor Bio:  Boehm, Philip The late Michal Grynberg, an associate of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and a noted Polish scholar of the Holocaust, devoted decades of his life to compiling and publishing firsthand accounts from ghettos throughout Poland. Philip Boehm is the author of numerous translations from Polish and German, including works by Franz Kafka, Ida Fink, and Christoph Hein. Based in St. Louis, he is also a playwright and theater director.