Dawid Sierakowiak
Dawid Sierakowiak was born in Lodz, Poland, in July 1924. He and his younger sister Nadia lived with their parents Majlech and Sura Sierakowiak. Dawid was a student in a private Jewish Gymnasium in Lodz, where he was on a scholarship.
He kept a diary from before the war where he meticulously noted not only the events but his own feelings, moods, and opinions. Dawid was an avid reader and an excellent observer. Throughout Dawid's imprisonment in the Lodz ghetto he made sure to write about his hopes and doubts and the tragedies that happened. He described with great feeling the taking of his beloved mother during the Gehsperre Aktion and his diminishing love for his own father.
Dawid Sierakowiak's diary ends in April 1943 with a hopeful note about getting a job in the ghetto bakery, where he would be able to eat. We do not know if he got this job or not, but we do know that this talented young man died on August 8, 1943, probably of tuberculosis. He wrote in his diary: "I so very much want to live and survive."
His sister was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was murdered. Five notebooks of Dawid's diary survived.
He kept a diary from before the war where he meticulously noted not only the events but his own feelings, moods, and opinions. Dawid was an avid reader and an excellent observer. Throughout Dawid's imprisonment in the Lodz ghetto he made sure to write about his hopes and doubts and the tragedies that happened. He described with great feeling the taking of his beloved mother during the Gehsperre Aktion and his diminishing love for his own father.
Dawid Sierakowiak's diary ends in April 1943 with a hopeful note about getting a job in the ghetto bakery, where he would be able to eat. We do not know if he got this job or not, but we do know that this talented young man died on August 8, 1943, probably of tuberculosis. He wrote in his diary: "I so very much want to live and survive."
His sister was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was murdered. Five notebooks of Dawid's diary survived.
