Lament
A young Jewish man bears witness to the destruction of his community and to the daily humiliations and cruelties that take place during the Holocaust.
As the German army invades his hometown in Poland, young Moishe Kantorowitz decides to mentally record everything he sees. In this movingly descriptive and devastating portrayal of prewar Jewish life and its destruction during the Holocaust, Moishe bears witness to incomprehensible cruelties and to the lives and communities that are rapidly wiped out by the Nazis. Moishe’s entire family is murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Moishe, selected to live, endures brutal treatment and constant hunger, his survival now dependent on the whims of his overseers and small acts of generosity that bring him back from the brink of death.
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Publication Date: July 1, 2025
Product Format: Default Title
Pages: 632
ISBN: 978-1-998880-24-9
Weight: 200
About the Author
Moishe Kantorowitz
Moishe Kantorowitz (1923–2008) was born in the town of Shershev, Poland (now Šarašova, Belarus). He immigrated to Canada in 1948 and eventually moved to St. John’s, Newfoundland, where he worked as a traveling salesman. Moishe received an honorary degree from Memorial University for his work in Holocaust education.