A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto - Abraham Lewin

Author: Abraham Lewin; edited by Antony Polonsky

Publisher: Basil Blackwell

Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

Edition: First edition, 1988. First published in the United States in 1989.

ISBN: 9780631162155

Condition: Second-hand. Good condition. The dust jacket shows moderate rubbing, surface scratching and shelf wear, with light creasing and wear around the corners and spine ends. The hardcover binding appears firm. Pages appear clean from the sections shown, with no inscriptions, highlighting or library markings visible. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Written inside the Warsaw Ghetto, Abraham Lewin’s diary records daily life under Nazi occupation, including hunger, disease, deportations, separation and the destruction of Warsaw’s Jewish community. The surviving entries cover the period from 1942 into early 1943 and form a direct eyewitness account of events as they unfolded.