In Those Nightmarish Days: The Ghetto Reportage of Peretz Opoczynski and Josef Zelkowicz

Peretz Opoczynski was a journalist who made significant contributions to the Warsaw Ghetto' s secret Jewish archive, Oyneg Shabes. Josef Zelkowicz, an ordained rabbi, became a key member of the semi-official archive in the Ló dz Ghetto. While other writers sought to create an objective and dispassionate record of ghetto circumstances, Zelkowicz and Opoczynski chronicled daily life and Jewish responses to the torment of Nazi oppression with powerful immediacy. This is a volume of reportage f...