Bread for the dead

Since when is a man not a man? Well, that's it. Old Baum had said something about freedom and other nonsense, but I didn't understand anything. The world of the hungry is controlled by the abdomen. Eat, eat !, this is shouted by the last living cell, and there is no man who would not hear this. It is impossible to get rid of this addiction, whatever lives on this land remains addicted to Bogdan Wojdowski, a quarter of a century after the war, his 1971 autobiographical novel is one of the most shocking testimonies of the emergency: he paints a sensuous panorama of the Warsaw ghetto. from the establishment of the ghetto to the great action of 1942, during which the Jews crowded into the ghetto were taken to the death camp in Treblinka. The world behind the walls of the Warsaw ghetto comes to life in the novel through the eyes of a Jewish boy of about ten years, Dawid. He is the one who experiences torturous experiences of evil every day, and as he struggles for survival, he seeks to preserve what is still left of his humanity. I came into the world at crazy times, and I myself went crazy to witness this madness, the author wrote in his 1985 diary. One of the most important voices from the children of the Holocaust. Henryk Grynberg