Voices from Destruction Two Eyewitness Testimonies from the Stanislawów Ghetto

The authoress analyses two testimonies from the Stanislawów ghetto: Eliszewa/Elza Binder's and Juliusz Feuerman's. Binder's diary, found in the ghetto, begins on 13 December 1941 and ends on 18 July 1942, whereas Feuerman's notes are a chronicle of the ghetto and the destruction of its inhabitants. The purpose of this analysis, supplemented by a biographical context, is to portray - as well as the authoress can - the characters of their authors. The reading of these two accounts, written in the same historical situation is to demonstrate that both the ideological and the emotional reactions to the current events in the ghetto cannot be separated from their personal emotional situation or their pre-war lives.