The Polish Uprising

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Here is a link to an account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising written by one of its leaders, Marek Edelman: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/warsaw-uprising.html. This is a booklet, a pamphlet, the date is unknown. It starts like this: I am not acquainted with the young author of this booklet, one of the leaders of the Jewish Uprising. He brought me a typewritten copy, and I read it all at once, unable to interrupt my reading for a single moment. … “I am not a writer, ” he said. “This has no literary value. ” However, this non-literary narrative achieves that which not all

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