Thursday 17 January 2013
This book is set in 1940-41 inside the Warsaw Ghetto
itself. It is about the everyday frailties and courage of a varied cast of
ordinary Jews. Erik, a distinguished elderly psychoanalyst, has
to leave his comfortable flat and move into the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews
were confined during the Nazi occupation of Poland. In the tiny flat of his
niece, Stefa, and her nine year-old son Adam, he must not just adapt to a
frozen, starving life on the edge of death, but learn to overcome his
selfishness. It is the child Adam who sets the old man on this road.
The Warsaw Anagrams is a highly realist murder
mystery. One might wonder, why bother with one person's death, when
slaughter is all around? "We owe uniqueness to our dead" is the
imperative that Erik comes to understand. By remembering the uniqueness of each
dead person, that person's humanity is maintained and the Nazis defeated in
their desire to reduce the Jews to nameless ash.
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