A Cat in the Ghetto: Stories

Classic Holocaust stories in a new compilation and trade paperback format. "One should read it in order not to forget." —Eleanor Roosevelt

First published in English in 1959 and long unavailable, Rachmil Bryks's vivid stories portray Jewish life in the Lodz ghetto and at Auschwitz. In a spare and tragicomic style, they illuminate the small and large absurdities that arise at the limits of human endurance—from the cooking of "roast meat" made of cabbage leaves to the predicament of Jews force...