Im Eilschritt durch den Gettotag-- : Reportagen und Essays aus dem Getto Lodz

Oskar Singer (1893-1944) was a well-known Czech Jewish author and journalist in Prague. In October 1941 he and his family (wife and two children) were deported to the Łódź ghetto. He was put to work in the Statistics Department of the Judenrat, where he wrote reports on daily life in the ghetto as well as essays, which are published here for the first time. The family was deported to Auschwitz in August 1944, where Singer was immediately gassed. His wife and children survived, but his wife died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen just after the liberation. The original manuscript of Singer's reports is found in the Lodz municipal archives. Includes an introduction by Sascha Feuchert, "Oskar Singer und seine Texte aus dem Getto: Eine Hinführung" (pp. 7-25), and two epilogues: Jörg Riecke, "Notizen zur Sprache der Reportagen und Essays" (235-244), and Julian Baranowski, "Zur Vorgeschichte und Geschichte des Gettos Lodz" (245-265). Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276). 277 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.