1st Edition

The Warsaw Ghetto's Little Nurse The Memoirs of Alina Margolis-Edelman

166 Pages
by Central European University Press

The memoirs of the Polish-Jewish writer, physician, and humanitarian aid activist, Alina Margolis-Edelman (1922–2008), present the life of its author from her childhood in Łódz, Poland till the end of the World War II. Soon after the beginning of the war her father was shot by the Gestapo, and her mother moved to Warsaw Ghetto with Alina and her younger brother. Alina enrolled in the Jewish... Read more

Editor’s Preface by Irena Grudzi.ska-Gross

Introduction by Marci Shore

1. Before the War

2. War

3. The Ghetto

4. On the Aryan Side

5. Luba’s Story

6. The Uprising

Epilogue

Biography

Alina Margolis-Edelman (1922–2008) was a Polish physician, Holocaust survivor, and resistance fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Forced to flee Poland in 1968 amid rising antisemitism, she went on to join Doctors Without Borders and co-found Doctors of the World, taking part in humanitarian medical missions across Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.

Irena Grudziska-Gross fled her native Poland in 1968, obtained her PhD at the Columbia University and became a professor at Emory University and Boston University, as well as a research scholar at Princeton University. She has written historical books on modern Europe (particularly intellectual history and literature), including The Scar of Revolution (1991), Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (2009), and Golden Harvest (2011), the latter of which she co-wrote with Jan T. Gross.