The book club meeting this month took place in a far away suburb during a manual labor project involving concrete.

Memories of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter by Kazik

The book was not really surprising in the details of what happened during the holocaust in Poland. What was surprising to me was the authors recall of all the names in the book. He seemed to relive the experience as he wrote and people appeared complete with cover names and real names and updated footnotes as to what happened to them. I'm glad there was a forward by the author who setup the fact that it was a book as the author remembered it. It was not fully chronological and told the facts as they were remembered. These facts included robbery, murder and other forms of brutality by the author without apology. It was clear they did what had to be done. It was tough to keep the various people and political movements straight. It was another view of this time in history and should be read by people who would like to increase their understanding of what was going on in Poland during that time. To me, it was very detailed and added very little to my understanding of why, how and what could have been done differently. You would really have to be interested in the specific historical details of the Polish Ghetto fighters to appreciate this book. I think as a book club we could steer clear of Holocaust books for the next decade or two.