The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger Order online and receive a
25% discount $24.99 Paper, 234 pp. At the beginning of the Nazi
period, 25,000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end
of the Second World War, nine remained. Like Anne Frank, Israel
Unger and his family hid for two years in an attic crawl space.
Against all odds, they emerged alive. Now, after decades of
silence, here is Unger’s “unwritten diary.” Nine people lived
behind that false wall above the Dagnan flour mill in Tarnow.
Their stove was the chimney that went up through the attic;
their windows were cracks in the wall. Survival depended on the
food the adults were able to forage outside at night. Even at
the end of the war, however, Jewish people emerging from hiding
were not safe. After the infamous postwar Kielce pogrom,
Israel’s parents sent him and his brother as “orphans” to France
in a program called Rescue Children, a Europe-wide attempt to
find homes for Jewish children orphaned by the Holocaust. When
the Unger family was fi