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Join editor Martin Dean and Professor Avinoam Patt for a discussion of the diary of Ita Dimant, Survival. Martin Dean will examine the unique qualities of Ita Dimant's reconstructed Holocaust diary and how it can help us to understand the tenuous and tortuous paths of Holocaust survivors. Ita Dimant was a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, who escaped from there to Czestochowa, where she lived mostly on the Aryan side and acted as a courier for Underground Zionist organizations, passing on information about the situation in other ghettos. Fearing exposure, she contemplated suicide, but ultimately was deported to forced labor in Germany, where she survived until the liberation.  

Martin Dean holds a PhD in History from Cambridge University. He worked previously as a war crimes investigator and is now a historical consultant. He has edited and translated several books and is the author of four monographs, including Robbing the Jews (2008), which won a National Jewish Book Award.

Professor Avinoam Patt is the Director of NYU’s Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at New York University