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The
Annual Abram Matlofsky Memorial Lecture, funded by the Karma Foundation
Rokhl Auerbach’s Warsaw Testament
Samuel D. Kassow
Charles H.
Northam Professor of History, Trinity College
Monday,
March 24, 7:30 p.m.
A dessert reception will follow the lecture.
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“In ‘Yizkor, 1943,’ an
elegy for the ghetto, Rokhl Auerbach writes: ‘And if, for even one of
the days of my life, I should forget how I saw you then, my people,
desperate and confused, delivered over to extinction, may all
knowledge of me be forgotten.’ Thanks to her indispensable chronicle,
and to Sam Kassow’s deft translation, there is no danger of that.”
—The Wall Street Journal
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Rokhl Auerbach was a central member of Oyneg
Shabes, the underground archival team in the Warsaw Ghetto,
which documented daily life at great personal risk. She later
dedicated her life to Holocaust remembrance. Samuel Kassow, a leading
scholar of Polish Jewry and the Holocaust, will discuss his award-winning
new translation of Auerbach’s memoir Warsaw Testament,
which, for the first time, makes this remarkable work available to
English-speaking audiences.
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Cosponsored by the Yiddish Book Center
Free & Open to the Public; Held at the Douglass
Student Center
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Samuel Kassow is also the
author of Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the
Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Indiana
University Press, 2007), which was a finalist for a National Jewish
Book Award, translated into eight languages, and adapted into an
award-winning documentary that had its New Jersey premiere at the
Rutgers Jewish Film Festival in 2018.
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