Joseph Ziemian

The way in which Joseph Zieman describes how he came across, and subsequently protected, the young cigarette sellers of Three Crosses Square, who were often the sole survivors of their families to escape from the Warsaw ghetto, is not as harrowing as many books about this period of history (such as Yitzhak Zuckerman's A SURPLUS OF MEMORY). It brings alive the challenges these young people faced, with courage and humor, on the 'Aryan' side of Warsaw, and it is also a record of how they fought bravely through the Warsaw Uprising. This book is a testament to the indomitability of the human spirit, and I am surprised that it is no longer in print.… (mere)