Creator Bio
Abraham Lewin
1893–1943
Born into a Hasidic family of scholars and rabbis in Warsaw, Abraham Lewin left his Orthodox roots and in 1916 began to teach at the Zionist Yehudia school for girls. When Jewish schools were officially banned by the Nazis in 1939, Lewin and his colleagues continued to teach clandestinely. Inside the Warsaw ghetto, from April 1942 to January 1943, he worked with Emanuel Ringelblum to document the daily lives and suffering of those trapped there.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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I. M. Weissenberg Memorial
We live in a prison. We have been degraded to the level of homeless and uncared-for animals. When we…
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A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
If one looks closely at the passers-by in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto one can see that the overwhelming majority of them are not originally from Warsaw, but are from…