Leyb Goldin’s race against starvation in the Ghetto: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

In August 1941, a young writer, Leyb Goldin, sat down to write about his day, struggling to survive in the Warsaw ghetto. This short piece of reportage, described as “a first person account of a man slowly dying of hunger”, is extremely powerful in portraying the terror of starvation, and perhaps deserves a place up there with some of the famous works of holocaust literature. Featured guest: David Roskies, Professor of Yiddish Literature and Culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

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Leyb Goldin’s race against starvation in the Ghetto: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust] is an episode from On the Holocaust - Yad Vashem by Yad Vashem.

This episode is 38:14 long.

This episode was published on Dec 28, 2022.

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