When: 09/08/2011

Where: Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue, Norrice Lea, N2 0RE

Time: 19:30

Contact: 020 7723 9991

Price: £10 + £1 Internet booking fee

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Antony Polonsky will introduce THE WARTIME DIARY OF EDMUND KESSLER. Dr. Kessler, a Jewish attorney from Lwow, Poland, gives an eye-witness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in his diary between the years 1942-1944, describing the Lwow Ghetto, the Janowska Concentration Camp, and the underground bunker where he and twenty-three other Jews were hidden by a courageous Polish farmer and his family.
The book includes a chapter by Kazimierz Kalwinski, who as a teenager, was a primary caretaker of the hidden Jews on his family's farm. Samuel Kassow comments, "To hide Jews in German occupied Poland was to expose oneself and one's family to risk of execution. It was not easy to procure food and to secure a hiding place from the scrutiny of prying eyes at a time when Germans were conducting constant searches for food and for hidden arms. How does one do this for 24 People?" Edmund's daughter, Renata Kessler will discuss the Kalwinskis and her search for the story, Renown scholar, Antony Polonsky presents a historical overview of Lwow Jewry, the ghetto, & rescuers.