Willy Cohn (1888–1941) was the most important writer of his
generation to study and record the lives of the Jewish population
of Breslau. A historian and educator, he knew the town and its
Jewish community like no other.
Norbert Conrads is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Early
Modern History at the University of Stuttgart. He is author of
numerous books on early modern Germany and Silesia. He has been
awarded several prizes, including the doctorate honoris causa by
the Polish University of Wrocław in 2011.
"This is by far the most probing,insightful, and gripping diary of a Jewish intellectual who lived in Germany during the 1930s. Indispensable for anyone interested in how Jews active in community affairs fared under Nazism." - Abraham Ascher,author of A Community under Siege: The Jews of Breslau under Nazism "This is by far the most probing, insightful, and gripping diary of a Jewish intellectual who lived in Germany during the 1930s. Indispensable for anyone interested in how Jews active in community affairs fared under Nazism." - Abraham Ascher, author of A Community under Siege: The Jews of Breslau under Nazism
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