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...