by Gusta Davidson Draenger
edited by Eli Pfefferkorn and David H. Hirsch
translated by Roslyn Hirsch
University of Massachusetts Press, 1996
Paper: 978-1-55849-038-3
Library of Congress Classification DS135.P63J87413 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.5318094386

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Written during World War II, Justyna's Narrative is a compelling account of the Krakow Jewish resistance. From February through April 1943, Gusta Davidson Draenger (aka "Justyna"?) composed the narrative on scraps of paper smuggled into her prison cell. Between sessions of torture and interrogation at the hands of the Gestapo, she recorded the activities and spiritual aspirations of the clandestine group of young Jewish idealists who forged documents, acquired weapons, and committed acts of defiance against the Nazis.