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Am I A Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman / A young Polish Jew chronicles his life under the Nazis. In the vain hope of protecting himself and his family, Calel Perechodnik made the wrenching decision to become a ghetto policeman in a small town near Warsaw, and the tragedy of his decision becomes clear when, during the "Aktion", he sees his wife and child forced onto a train bound for the Treblinka extermination camp. Filled with loathing for the Germans, the Poles, his Jewish brethren, and himself, Perechodnik fled the ghetto to shelter with a Polish woman in Warsaw, and in the course of 105 terror-filled days he poured his story into a diary. Shortly before his death in 1944, he entrusted the diary to a Polish friend, and the document was eventually deposited in the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem. Left nearly forgotten for half a century, it was finally published in Poland in 1993.

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Holocaust--Personalnarratives.
Classification	940.43 PER
Publisher	Boulder, Colo. USA., Westview Press, 1996
Subject	Holocaust--Personal narratives.Perechodnik, Calel, 1916-1944.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Otwock--Personal narratives.Worl War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland--Otwock.Jews--Poland--Otwock--Biography.Collection of diary entries
Description	255
ISBN	9780813327020
URL	https://www.amazon.com/Am-Murderer-Testament-Jewish-Policeman/dp/0813327024