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"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.
The widely scattered pages of the diaries, collected here for the first time, have been meticulously deciphered, translated, and annotated for this volume.".
"Kruk describes events both public and private in entries that start in September 1939, when he fled the German attack on Warsaw and became a refugee in Vilna, the "Jerusalem of Lithuania." His diaries go on to recount the two tragic years of the Vilna Ghetto and a subsequent year in death camps in Estonia. Kruk penned his final diary entry on September 17, 1944, managing to bury the small, loose pages of his manuscript just hours before he and other camp inmates were shot to death."--BOOK JACKET.
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Concentration camps, Ethnic relations, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jewish resistance, Jews, Klooga (Concentration camp), Persecutions, Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945, Jews, persecutions, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, Internment camps, Nazi concentration campsPeople
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Estonia, Lithuania, Vilnius, Vilnius (Lithuania)Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 1939-1944
September 2002, Yale University Press
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The last days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: chronicles from the Vilna ghetto and the camps, 1939-1944
2002, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
in English
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"From noon on, people are snatched ceaselessly for work [building trenches around Warsaw]."
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