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Nov 2023, 304 pages
Paperback:
Oct 29, 2024, 320 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Kim Kovacs
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On September 1, 1939, Hitler's forces invaded Poland. His administration established the Warsaw Ghetto, a fenced and guarded area of Warsaw to which all Poland's Jews were forced to relocate just over a year later. At its height it was inhabited by approximately 460,000 people, about 85,000 of whom were children. As conditions in the Ghetto deteriorated, a Jewish Polish historian, Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, recruited people to create a secret record of the lives of the incarcerated Jews, an effort that became known as the Oneg Shabbat Project (see Beyond the Book). Novelist Lauren Grodstein uses this real-life archive as a basis for her book We Must Not Think of Ourselves.
Adam Paskow, who narrates the novel, is a 42-year-old widower. As the book opens, he's been recruited by Ringelblum to join the project. "Our task is to pay attention," Ringelblum tells him, "...
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