Calel Perechodnik
Calel Perechodnik · Arts & Literature
Diarist of the Otwock ghetto; his testimony 'Am I a Murderer?' is a primary source on the ghetto police
8 September 1916, Otwock, Kingdom of Poland — October 1944, Warsaw, occupied Poland
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Calel Perechodnik was a Polish Jew who joined the Jewish Ghetto Police in Otwock in February 1941, believing the post would protect his family. On 19 August 1942 he brought his wife Anka and their daughter Alinka to the ghetto square; both were among the 8,000 Otwock Jews murdered at Treblinka. In hiding afterwards he wrote the testimony published as 'Am I a Murderer?', an account that indicts himself before anyone else and remains a primary source on the impossible position of the ghetto police.
He died in Warsaw in October 1944, aged 27. The Karta Centre published the diary in 1995; Frank Fox's English translation followed in 1996.
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Diarist of the Otwock ghetto; his testimony 'Am I a Murderer?' is a primary source on the ghetto police
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