A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto

Abraham Lewin

1942

Tuesday, 29 December [1942]

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 small towns. They were driven out from their homes a long time ago and saved themselves during the expulsion by hiding out in various dark corners. In…

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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.

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