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1111 Days in My Life Plus Four
Ephraim Sten
Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Dor
Introduction by Myra Sklarew


The Holocaust diary of a young man reexamined after fifty years

In 1941, in Zlochow, Poland, where Ephraim Sten lived with his family, the SS rounded up Jews into ghettos. Thirteen-year old Sten, who had started a diary, fled with his mother to the countryside where a Catholic-Ukrainian couple hid them and several relatives. Sten's account of those years is harrowing. Fifty years later he had the diary translated into Hebrew for his children and responded to each of his own youthful entries. This is the first English-language edition.

"For decades," he writes, "I was not conscious of the load crushing my soul. This damned writing has newly rediscovered everything." This is an extraordinary record and, in itself, a distinctive work of literature. As Myra Sklarew writes, "the boy and the man he became finally stand side by side in an attempt to free themselves from the voices, faces, images of their shared past."

Ephraim Sten was born in 1928 and remained in Poland until 1957, becoming artistic director of the Municipal Theater in Gdansk. He then emigrated to Israel, quickly learned Hebrew, and worked for Israeli radio directing and adapting numerous plays. In addition to a book of short stories, Blessed Memories, he also published a thriller, Pompei Is Being Destroyed Again. Ephraim Sten died in 2004.

Published by Dryad Press in association with University of Wisconsin Press

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cover of Sten is a color photo of a grey wall, a barred window, and the sea beyond

June 2005
200 pp. 5 1/4 x 8 3/4
ISBN 1-928755-08-9 Paper $15.95 t


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