Wir sind so weit…, “our time has come…” was the text written on a postcard by Chania, sister of the author, while being deported to the concentration camp of Bełzec. The book narrates the story of a Jewish family in nazi Europe from 1939 to 1945, a unique testimony of their run away from Poland through Eastern Europe, of the dynamics of the extermination centers of Belzec and Treblinka, as well as of the Jewish Ghetto Police and the Jewish Councils in the ghettos.
A monumental work of three volumes, integrated by numerous original images and documents, the manuscript has been compared to Emanuel Ringelblum’s Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto or Adam Czerniaków’s The Warsaw Diary.
Menachem Mendel Selinger was born in 1897 in Tarnów (Galicia). In 1933, after Hitler’s rise to power, he moved to Kraków with his family, planning to later escape to South Africa. Unfortunately, circumstances forced the family to remain in Poland, where they were soon swept up in the tragic events of World War II. Selinger found himself in the painful role of witness to the Nazi invasion of Poland and the tragic fate of polish Jews.
