<DIV>From February 1942 to July 1944, Oskar Rosenfeld served in the statistics department of the Lodz ghetto. A playwright and journalist, he kept his own notes on life and conditions in the ghetto for a fictionalized account he hoped to write one day. Though Rosenfeld eventually perished at Auschwitz, <I>In the Beginning Was the Ghetto</I> projects his voice at last to the wider world.<BR></DIV>