![]() Abruptly /Lód'z is occupied by the Nazis, and the Sierakowiak family is among the city's 200,000 Jews who are soon forced into a sealed ghetto, completely cut off from the outside world. ![]() He returns home under the quickly gathering clouds of war. Off mountain climbing and studying in southern Poland during the summer of 1939, Dawid begins his diary with a heady enthusiasm to experience life, learn languages, and read great literature. It is one of the most fastidiously detailed accounts ever rendered of modern life in human bondage. The diary comprises a remarkable legacy left to humanity by its teenage author. Young Sierakowiak was one of more than 60,000 Jews who perished in that notorious urban slave camp, a man-made hell which was the longest surviving concentration of Jews in Nazi Europe. ![]() Soon after writing it, the young author died of tuberculosis, exhaustion, and starvation-the Holocaust syndrome known as "ghetto disease." After the liberation of the /Lód'z Ghetto, his notebooks were found stacked on a cookstove, ready to be burned for heat. There is really no way out of this for us." This is Dawid Sierakowiak's final diary entry. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. "In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. ![]()
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