Nyhet

Warsaw Ghetto's Little Nurse

The Memoirs of Alina Margolis-Edelman

AvAlina Margolis-Edelman,Alina Margolis-Edelman

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

The memoirs of the Polish-Jewish writer, physician, and humanitarian aid activist, Alina Margolis-Edelman (1922–2008), present the life of its author from her childhood in Łódz, Poland till the end of the World War II. Soon after the beginning of the war her father was shot by the Gestapo, and her mother moved to Warsaw Ghetto with Alina and her younger brother. Alina enrolled in the Jewish School of Nursing and worked as a nurse and a courier for the Resistance movement. In a rescue action she describes in the book, she saved the life of Marek Edelman – one of the leaders of the Ghetto Uprising (1943), and he later became her husband.The stories told in her book illuminate issues of anti-Semitism, Holocaust, and Jewish resistance to oppression. She writes about solidarity in times of great danger, resilience in dire situations, dignity of love and care.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 9 mm
Vikt:310 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Central European University Press
ISBN:9789633868645
Översättare:Ludmila Melchior-Yahil

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Mer om författaren

Alina Margolis-Edelman (1922–2008) was a Polish physician, Holocaust survivor, and resistance fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Forced to flee Poland in 1968 amid rising antisemitism, she went on to join Doctors Without Borders and co-found Doctors of the World, taking part in humanitarian medical missions across Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.Irena Grudziska-Gross fled her native Poland in 1968, obtained her PhD at the Columbia University and became a professor at Emory University and Boston University, as well as a research scholar at Princeton University. She has written historical books on modern Europe (particularly intellectual history and literature), including The Scar of Revolution (1991), Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (2009), and Golden Harvest (2011), the latter of which she co-wrote with Jan T. Gross.

Innehållsförteckning

Editor’s Preface by Irena Grudzi.ska-Gross Introduction by Marci Shore 1. Before the War 2. War 3. The Ghetto 4. On the Aryan Side 5. Luba’s Story 6. The Uprising Epilogue