TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grupińska,Hanka
AU  - Taylor-Kucia,Jessica
TI  - I Came Home and There Was No One There: Conversations and Stories about the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto 
T2  - Jews of Poland
SN  - 9798887192604
U1  - 940.53/1853841 23/eng/20230407
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - HISTORY / Holocaust
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History, ghetto, Holocaust, Warsaw, Jewish youth, Jewish organizations and political parties, resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, 1943 uprising
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Part One. Still Circling: Conversations with Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization --; Recording the Holocaust --; What Was of Importance in the Ghetto? Nothing! Nothing! Don't Be Ridiculous! --; Back Then, There Were Many Legends . . . --; Someone Must Have Pushed That Closet up Flush from Outside . . . --; I'm Telling You so Superficially Because I Don't Remember --; We Were Just Rank-And-File Soldiers --; Well, I'm Here, Aren't I?! --; Truth Be Told, I Left My House in 1942 and Never Went Back --; And That's All My Life Story --; I Know What I Know, and I Remember What I Remember --; None of It Is of Any Significance --; Part Two. Rereading the List: Stories about the Soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization --; Introduction --; List of Those Who Fell in the Defense of the Warsaw Ghetto --; A Rereading of the List --; A Cemetery of Letters, a Cemetery of Words --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This book comprises interviews with the last veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization (%9;OB), accompanied by never previously published photographic "postcards" from ghettos in the Warsaw region, and a reconstruction of the only existing list of the (%9;OB) soldiers.The first part of the book, a collection of conversations with the last soldiers of the %9;OB, which fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising, is called "Still Circling". The first of the interviews was recorded in 1985 with %9;OB commander Marek Edelman, and the last another conversation with him from 2000. Grupińska's other interlocutors are also %9;OB veterans-rank-and-file soldiers, men and women. They relate the stories of their homes and backgrounds-some were Bundists, others from Zionist or religious families-followed by their recollections of how they experienced and remembered the uprising. This provides several unique perspectives on shared episodes. Images include portraits of Grupińska's interlocutors, as well as never previously published photographs of the ghetto and its surroundings that are reminiscent of postcards.The second part of the book, "Rereading the List," is intended to function like a litany of the names of the %9;OB members who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. This list was compiled by a group of fighters in 1943 and rediscovered by the author in 2000. Each name is accompanied by a short story about the fighter-sometimes only a sentence or two-as well as any available photograph of them. The list is followed by a reconstruction of the %9;OB army, its divisions, and the places they fought
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887192604
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9798887192604
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9798887192604/original
ER  -