Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia

Wendy Lower is John K. Roth Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, a National Book Award finalist.

This volume combines a powerfully emotional personal narrative with concise and cohesive historical analysis in a way that other source-based books do not. Moreover, it is of great use to both scholars and students. While specialists and historians will surely find Golfard’s testimony textually rich, multi-dimensional, and challenging, the educational value of this volume is substantial. The book is short enough for students to digest easily, and perhaps more important, the historical background and editorial comments make the text a stand-alone work containing all one needs to truly engage with Samuel Golfard’s diary. Lower has produced an accessible yet historically complex commentary on a very special testimony—one that scholars and educators alike will certainly want on their shelves.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsEditor’s NotePart I: Introduction to Samuel Golfard's Diary–Reading Jewish Diaries of the Holocaust–The Golfard Diary as a Source of Holocaust History in Poland and Ukraine–The Local Setting of Golfard’s Diary: Peremyshliany (Ukrainian), Przemyslany (Polish), Peremyshlany (German)–Peremyshliany before the Nazi Occupation–The German Occupation of Peremyshliany, 1941–1944Part II: Samuel Golfard's Diary, January to April 1943Part III: Related Documents–Wartime Documents–Postwar Documents–Jacob Litman’s Testimonies–Rescue in Peremyshliany : The Example of Tadeusz Jankiewicz and His FamilyList of DocumentsPlace Names Mentioned in the DiaryBibliographyChronology of Events Related to the DiaryBiographiesIndexAbout the Author