ADAR B 5765 (2005) - Purim at the camps
		Children in the Polish ghetto of Lodz in a Purim celebration Purim play in the ghetto in Wielopole Poland, 1942. Purim celebration, Wieliczka , Poland, 1942. RESEARCH Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira The Piaseczner Rebbe The last Rebbe in the Warsaw Ghetto TESTIMONIES The following testimonies are from the book SHEMA YISRAEL (Kaliv World Center) FROM THE BOOKSHELF A SACRED FIRE: TORAH FROM THE YEARS OF FURY 1939-1942 Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira (translated from Hebrew by J.H.Worch) FROM THE BOOKSHELF B SHEMA YISRAEL: TESTIMONIES OF DEVOTION, COURAGE AND SELF-SACRIFICE Kaliv World Center FROM THE BOOKSHELF C THOSE WHO NEVER YEILDED Prager, Moshe FROM THE BOOKSHELF D A SCROLL OF AGONY THE WARSAW DIARY OF CHAIM A. KAPLAN FROM THE BOOKSHELF E KIDDUSH HASHEM: JEWISH RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL LIFE IN POLAND DURING THE HOLOCAUST Huberband, Shimon   A SCROLL OF AGONY THE WARSAW DIARY OF CHAIM A. KAPLAN Katsch, A.I (editor and translator) New York: Collier Books, 1965 This diary in unique in that it is the only major document from the Holocaust period written in the Hebrew language. It provides a full account of the beginning of Nazi dominance in Poland, as well as a chronicle of life in the ghetto. The diary portrays the Jews’ heroic struggle to maintain a spiritual, religious, and educational life, and to retain their dignity and integrity as human beings at a time when most of the world inhumanely looked aside.