"Farbstein presents a comparison between a diary written over a period of eighteen months by the rabbi of Sanniki, Rabbi Yehoshua Aharonson, during his incarceration together with members of his community in the Konin labor camp, and the memoirs which the rabbi wrote immediately after the war, when the diary was thought to be lost.A
The comparison reveals an extraordinary resemblance between the two documents. Any amplification in the memoirs is aimed at clarification and elucidation of incidents which the author, through force of circumstances, was unable to enlarge upon while writing the...