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arrive before the Lord God


Conversation with Marek Edelman

Hanna Krall
Foreword by Gad Lerner
Translated by Ludmila Ryba and Janina Pastrello

The Giuntina 2010
€ 12.00


In the clinic where I worked as a result there was a huge palm tree. Sometimes I stayed down there and before I saw the rooms where inmates were my patients. Those were different times, there were no drugs today, and most of the patients in those rooms was sentenced to die. My job was to save as much as possible and one day, under the palm tree, I realized that was basically the same job that there Umschlagplatz. Even then I was at the gate and pulled out from a crowd of people of offenders.
Mark Edelman, the only commander of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto survived the war, as there was at the gate nell'Umschlagplatz, the collection center to the edge of the ghetto, where he saw 400,000 Jews take off, one by one and go on wagons that will take them to die in Treblinka. There, as in his profession after a cardiologist, has done nothing other than trying to arrive before the Lord God and save lives as much as he could.
This book tells Hanna Krall of Jewish life in the ghetto, the revolt of his profession as a doctor. But it's not a hero and almost foot down and kick in the face of questions the writer. He argues that, in the operating room as the gate in 'Umschlagplatz, save one in four hundred thousand is simply ridiculous.
But all life is for each one hundred percent the whole, then perhaps there is still a sense . So concludes
Hanna Krall, and us with it.

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Monday, January 31 at 17.30 at the Oblate Library, an initiative to recall Marek Edelman (1922? -2009), With Rudi Assuntina, Francesco Catalucci, Wlodek Goldkorn, Ludmila Ryba and Daniel Vogelmann. During the meeting, the movie will be screened Chronicle of the Warsaw ghetto uprising second Marek Edelman and an interview with Edelman created by Gad Lerner in 2006.