In the Beginning Was the Ghetto Notebooks from Lodz

Oskar Rosenfeld was born on May 13, 1884, in Korycany, Moravia. A founder of the Jewish Stage, the first Jewish theater in Vienna, he was a novelist, a playwright, a journalist, and an editor of the Zionist Wiener Morgenzeitung and the weekly Die Neue Welt. With the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938, Rosenfeld fled with his wife to Prague, where he worked as a correspondent for the Jewish Chronicle in London and hoped to immigrate. Stranded by the outbreak of the war, he was deported to Lodz together with five thousand Jews in November 1941. When the ghetto was liquidated in August 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he was murderedRosenfeld, Oskar is the author of 'In the Beginning Was the Ghetto Notebooks from Lodz' with ISBN 9780810114883 and ISBN 0810114887.