Julius Feldman (1923–1943)
Autore di The Krakow Diary of Julius Feldman
Opere di Julius Feldman
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Feldman, Julius
- Altri nomi
- Фельдман, Юлиус
- Data di nascita
- 1923-12-24
- Data di morte
- 1943-05
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Poland
- Luogo di nascita
- Kraków, Poland
- Luogo di residenza
- Krakow, Poland
- Attività lavorative
- diarist
- Breve biografia
- Julius Feldman was born to a Jewish family in Kraków, Poland. He was a teenager when Nazi Germany invaded his country in World War II. In 1943, he began writing a diary-cum-memoir that detailed his life before and during the Nazi Occupation. Although writing in the 1940s, Julius recorded events dating back to August 1939 and the start of the war. He was the only Jewish student in his class at school, and recalled the effects of increasing anti-Jewish measures and persecution. His diary provides a unique insight into how horrifying and isolating life was for Polish Jews during those years. Julius chronicled his time in both the Kraków Ghetto, and Płaszów concentration camp. He was risking his life by keeping a record of events, and kept the pages carefully concealed. The diary ends abruptly in mid-sentence on April 11, 1943. Julius did not survive the Holocaust, and was probably murdered in May 1943, at age 19. His writings were found after the end of the war, hidden in the wall of the building where he had been a forced laborer. The manuscript was saved and eventually given to Julius's cousin Oscar and his wife Gisela, who worked tirelessly to ensure the diary was published. An English translation entitled The Kraków Diary of Julius Feldman was published in the USA in 2002.
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- Voto
- 4.0
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Although Julius writes calmly and unemotionally, the horror of what he went through is obvious. He lost his entire immediate family -- mother, father and younger brother -- on the same day during a major deportation in the ghetto. During that time he instructed his mother to hide under a table in a workshop, but after he left her, when the Germans called for everyone to come out of the buildings onto the street, for whatever reason she obeyed. When he returned to the spot where she'd been hiding, all he found were the marks of her tears on the table.
The book is illustrated with many black and white photographs, some from Julius's surviving relatives and some general war pictures. There are also endnotes and a timeline to help clarify the diary and place it in its proper historical context.
A decent scholarly effort, and a worthy edition to the shelf of Holocaust diary/memoirs.… (altro)