When Armand Gliksberg was seventeen, in 1941, he left his family to scout out a safe-passage to the unoccupied zone. He would regret his decision to this day: while trying to make their way to meet him, his parents and sister were arrested. After being detained in the French camps of Beaune-la-Rolande and Drancy, they died in Auschwitz. This son’s “Kaddish” is a personal look back at the historical events of significance between the dates of his beloved father’s birth in 1892 in Warsaw, and his and his mother and sister’s death in 1942 in Auschwitz. History viewed through a personal lens, Kaddish pour les miens is an invaluable addition to the literature of the Holocaust, and to the history of French anti-Semitism in particular. Eight years of research yielded numerous facsimile documents and letters relating to the family’s trajectory from Poland to France and back to Poland.

The present edition is a revised and expanded version of the original 1995 publication.