Czestochowa, Poland

Resurrection and Destruction in Ghetto Czestochowa
(Częstochowa, Poland)
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Translation of
Viderstand un Umkum in Czenstochower Ghetto

Edited by: L. Brener

Published: Poland before 1952

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Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator and Translator

Gloria Berkenstat Freund

This is a translation from: Viderstand un Umkum in Czenstochower Ghetto (Resurrection and Destruction in Ghetto Czestochowa),
edited by L. Brener, published in Poland before 1952 by The Jewish Historical Institute of Poland, 177 pages (Y)

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The First Tortures 5

The Judenrat and Its Authority 11

The Ghetto 20

Map of Czestochowa

Introduction

This work by Liber Brener, Viderstand un Umkum in Czenstochower Ghetto [Resurrection and Destruction in Ghetto Czestochowa], is an expansion and reworking of a diary which the author continued for a long time in the ghetto and in the camp. After the liberation, L. Brener restored his memories and verified and completed them with a series of German, Polish and Yiddish documents as well as testimony from other Jewish survivors of the Czenstochower ghetto. The subjective element, those who themselves lived through it and, as matter of fact, the specific nature of the events – places a seal on the book and is the reason that the author does not pretend to have exhaustively [covered everything] and answered every problem that emerged in connection with the events in the large and small Czenstochower ghettos and in the H.A.S.A.G. camp.* As a matter of fact, this book does not pretend to be a thoroughly rigorous scientific study. Therefore, Brener's book presents itself as an important and worthwhile material collection, which will serve as a basis for research and scientific synthesis by the future historian of the ghettos and resistance movement and as a source for creating materials for illuminating those basic problems for which this book does not give a completely clear answer.

*[Translator's note: H.A.S.A.G. is the acronym for a German metal goods manufacturer, Hugo Schneider Metallwarenfabrik AG. A H.A.S.A.G. factory was established in the Czenstochower ghetto and "employed" forced labor or prisoners from concentration camps.]

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