Zygmunt Klukowski’s diary records his experiences from 1939 to 1944 as a physician and non-Jewish person during the occupation. Despite belonging to the Home Amary, a resistance movement in Poland, Klukowski remains an observer of the events that transpired in his town, Szczebrzeszyn. These events included the deportation and killings of Jewish people, as well as, Polish inhabitants. Throughout the diary, Klukowski records what happens in the town, the actions of the German and his responses in a factual, neutral and detached tone. As a result, Klukowski is a passive bystander because of his lack of action against the Germans, the absence of an emotional response to appalling events and his diary is supposed to only serve as a record of this
