Creator Bio
Calel Perechodnik
1916–1944
Calel Perechodnik was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Otwock, Poland. Perechodnik was able to temporarily provide for his family by joining the Jewish ghetto police in February 1941. However, his wife and daughter were sent to Treblinka in 1942 and Perechodnik died in 1944 in the Warsaw ghetto. His wartime diaries were published in 1995 by the Karta Center of Warsaw.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Letter to Anka
19 August 1943
Today, dear Anka, is the anniversary of your Golgotha, tomorrow the anniversary of your death. A year has passed since I last saw you. You see, Anka, I do not believe in God and never…