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The last days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania : chronicles from the Vilna ghetto and the camps, 1939-1944 / Herman Kruk ; edited and introduced by Benjamin Harshav ; translated by Barbara Harshav.
LIBRA DS135.L52 V554813 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kruk, Herman, 1897-1944.
- Standardized Title:
- Ṭogbukh fun Ṿilner geṭo. English
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Kruk, Herman, 1897-1944.
- Kruk, Herman.
- Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Jews.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Vilnius--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)--Ethnic relations.
- Vilnius (Lithuania).
- Klooga (Concentration camp).
- Nazi concentration camps--Estonia.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Internment camps--Estonia.
- Internment camps.
- Estonia.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- lii, 732 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : YIVO Institute for Jewish Research : Yale University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- For five horrifying years, the librarian Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences and those of others, determinedly documenting the life and daily resistance of European Jews in the deepening shadow of imminent death. This unique chronicle includes all recovered pages of Kruk's diaries and provides a powerful eyewitness account of the annihilation of the Jewish community of Vilna.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Herman Kruk's Holocaust Writings / Benjamin Harshav xxi
- 1. The Collapse of Poland: September 1939-June 1941 1
- 2. The Destruction of Jewish Vilna: June 22, 1941-September 6, 1941 46
- 3. The Vilna Ghetto: September 7, 1941-February 17, 1942 100
- 4. Between YIVO and Ponar: February 19, 1942-July 9, 1942 212
- 5. Putsch in the Ghetto: July 11, 1942-October 28, 1942 326
- 6. The Second Winter: October 29, 1942-March 18, 1943 391
- 7. The Sky Is Overcast Again: March 19, 1943-May 10, 1943 480
- 8. The Ghetto Will Not Calm Down: May 12, 1943-July 14, 1943 536
- 9. Narrative Chronicles of the Ghetto: 1941-1943 593
- 10. The Camps in Estonia: August 1943-September 1944 659
- Appendix Place Names 707.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 713-714) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300044941
- OCLC:
- 48773758
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