The Warsaw Ghetto's Little Nurse : The Memoirs of Alina Margolis-Edelman

Margolis-Edelman, Alina (EDT)/ Grudzinska-Gross, Irena (EDT)

Central European University Press（2026/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 166 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789633868645
• DDC分類 940.531853841

Full Description

The memoirs of the Polish-Jewish writer, physician, and humanitarian aid activist, Alina Margolis-Edelman (1922-2008), present the life of its author from her childhood in .ód., Poland till the end of the World War II. Soon after the beginning of the war her father was shot by the Gestapo, and her mother moved to Warsaw Ghetto with Alina and her younger brother. Alina enrolled in the Jewish School of Nursing and worked as a nurse and a courier for the Resistance movement. In a rescue action she describes in the book, she saved the life of Marek Edelman - one of the leaders of the Ghetto Uprising (1943), and he later became her husband.

The stories told in her book illuminate issues of anti-Semitism, Holocaust, and Jewish resistance to oppression. She writes about solidarity in times of great danger, resilience in dire situations, dignity of love and care.

Contents

Editor's Preface by Irena Grudzi.ska-Gross Introduction by Marci Shore Before the War War The Ghetto On the Aryan Side Luba's Story The Uprising Epilogue