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At the beginning of the Nazi period, 25,000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end of the Second World War, nine remained. Like Anne Frank, Israel Unger and his family hid for two years in an attic crawl space above the Dagnan flour mill in Tarnow. Their stove was the chimney that went up through the attic; their windows were cracks in the wall. Survival depended on the food the adults were able to forage outside at night. Against all odds, they emerged alive. Now, decades later, here is Unger's ""unwritten diary.""
At the end of the war, following a time as people sans pays, the Unger family immigrated to Canada. After discovering a love of chemistry, Israel Unger had a stellar academic career, married, and raised a family in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger is as much a Holocaust story as it is a story of a young immigrant making every possible use of the opportunities Canada had to offer.
This revised edition includes a reproduction of Dagnan's List, a list of Jewish slave labourer similar Schindler's List, made famous in the Steven Spielberg movie. The name of Israel Unger's father appears on the list, in which Dagnan declares that Unger is an ""essential worker"" - a ruse that may have saved the father's life. This recently discovered document proves that Israel Unger's memory of this key part of the story was accurate. A new postscript details the importance of this startling document.
Contents
The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger by Carolyn Gammon and Israel Unger
Dedications
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Israel Unger
Part I: The Only Jews in Poland
Srulik is born in Tarnow
Wysiedlenia
My Father's Courage
Dagnam's Flour Mill
The Hideout
The Only Jews in Poland
Kissing a Soviet Soldier's Boot
Matzos from America
Part II: Sans Pays
The Kielce Pogrom and a Gash on the Head
Becoming ""Orphans""
Aix-les-Bains
Sans Pays in Paris
Charlie and Sydney in London
Back to Paris, Quartier Pére Lachaise
Visions of Canada: Mounties, Snow, and Sheepskin
Part III: Canadian Through and Through
An Airplane, a Stevedore, and His Plymouth: Arriving at Pier 21
Home à la Mordecai Richler
Ich hab dir gegebn lebn zwei mol—""I gave you life twice""
The Yeshiva and Bnei Akiva
Canada Through and Through
The Octet Rule
Collecting Butcher Bills
Kafkaesque Encounters
My Brother Charlie
Part IV: The Bubble Counter
Leaving Home: Montreal to Fredericton
The Bubble Counter
Photochemistry in Texas
Under the Chuppah in Minto, New Brunswick
The Young Professor—From Texas to Saint John
ALS—My Father's Death
Charlie's Troubles
A Mark for Canada
Sharon and Sheila
The Best Granny
Part V: Dean Unger
Dean Unger
Struggles with Charlie
My Mother and Her Backbone of Steel
Marlene
Making Up for Lost Time
Airplane Accident
Telling My Story
Part VI: ""They Know My Name is Srulik!""
Return to Tarnow
A Modern Righteous Gentile: Meeting Adam Bartosz
Meeting Mr. Dagnan
Skorupa
Kalman Goldberg—Outside the Hideout
Rescue Children, Inc.
Ryglice and Dabrowa
State Archives and Registry Office
My Birth House
Matzevahs for my Family
""They know my name is Srulik!""
""How did the Holocaust affect you?""
Afterword: Writing The Unwritten Diary by Carolyn Gammon
Postscript
Dagnan's List
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
