Warsaw Ghetto Diary by Dropsie President Published in Japanese

Excerpts from “Scroll of Agony” by Dr. Abraham 1. Katsh, already published in seven different countries throughout the world, has now been published for the first time in the Far East in Japan. “Scroll of Agony.” based on the Warsaw Ghetto diary of a noted Polish Hebrew scholar, was first published in this country by the Macmillan Company. Dr. Katsh, who also found the missing portions of the diary after its original publication, is president of The Dropsie University. The excerpted sections of the book provide the opening chapters of a new book titled, “From the Distance to Liberation,” just published in Tokyo, Japan, by the Gakugei Shorin Publishing Corp. The new book, which deals with the Nazi Holocaust, was edited by Hariu Ichiro, a well-known literary critic in Japan. The diary of Chaim A. Kaplan, a Polish intellectual and Hebraica scholar who died during the Nazi occupation, provides the most detailed account of events and activities of the half million Jews imprisoned behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto.