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August 20, 2024

A Holocaust Memoir from a Woman Who Encouraged Survivors to Speak

Warsaw Testament.

Rachel Auerbach’s Warsaw Testament, recently published in an English translation by the American scholar Samuel Kassow, is a memoir of her time in the Warsaw Ghetto, her efforts to nurture its residents both physically and spiritually, and her involvement in an underground project to create a historical record of what happened there. After the war ended, Auerbach devoted herself to collecting and studying the testimonies of survivors. Matt Lebovic writes:

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