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From February 1942 to July 1944, Oskar Rosenfeld served in the statistics department of the Lodz ghetto. A playwright and journalist, he kept his own notes on life and conditions in the ghetto for a fictionalized account he hoped to write one day. Though Rosenfeld eventually perished at Auschwitz, In the Beginning Was the Ghetto projects his voice at last to the wider world.
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Viennese novelist, playwright, journalist, and Zionist editor Rosenfeld (1884-1944) was known as a contributor to the daily ghetto chronicle in L=dz, but his personal notebooks from the time were recently discovered in Israel. Loewy, founding director of the Fritz Bauer Institute, sets the historical and biographical context. Historian Goldstein has translated many works from German. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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