The
 diaries
 and
 memoirs
 of
 the
 Warsaw
 Ghetto
 lament
 the
 destruction
 of
 Warsaw
 and
 the
 loss
 of
 its
people.
 These
 accounts
 document
 life
 in
 the
 Ghetto
 and
 testify
 to
 the
 horror
 and
 tragedy
 of
 those
 merciless
 days.
 The
 following
 paper
 reviews
 a
 number
 of
 diaries
 and
 memoirs
 concerning
 the
 Warsaw
Ghetto
 in
 order
 to
 compare
 the
 unique
 nature
 of
 the
 documents,
 as
 well
 as
 to
 explore
 the
 challenges
 and
 distinctions
 of
 each
 narrative
 form.
 An
 examination
 of
 the
 accounts
 show
 how
 the
 diaries
 depict
individuals
 in
 transformation,
 while
 the
 memoirs
 reveal
 writers
 struggling
 with
 the
 confines
 of
 their
 own
 imaginations 
in 
order 
to 
restore 
the 
events 
as 
they 
happened.
 Furthermore, 
the 
diaries 
exemplify 
how
 the 
brutal
 conditions
 in
 the
 Ghetto
 impacted
 and
 wrought
 changes
 in
 the
 individual
 writers.
 In
 contrast,
 the
 memoirs
 demonstrate
 survivors
 attempting
 to
 retrieve
 the
 loss
 of
 self.
 The
 work
 of
 the
 memoirists 
underlines
 the
 sheer
 impossibility
 of
 transmitting
 the
 horrors
 of
 the
 Holocaust
 and
 exemplifies
 its
 destructiveness 
on 
life.