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From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg - Memoir and Testimony (Paperback)
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From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg - Memoir and Testimony (Paperback)
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In 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow
from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan
fighters. There he was encouraged by Ilya Ehrenburg, the most
famous Soviet Jewish writer of his day, to write a memoir of his
two years in the Vilna Ghetto. Now, seventy-five years after it
appeared in Yiddish in 1946, Justin Cammy provides a full English
translation of one of the earliest published memoirs of the
destruction of the city known throughout the Jewish world as the
Jerusalem of Lithuania. Based on his own experiences, his
conversations with survivors, and his consultation with materials
hidden in the ghetto and recovered after the liberation of his
hometown, Sutzkever's memoir rests at the intersection of postwar
Holocaust literature and history. He grappled with the
responsibility to produce a document that would indict the
perpetrators and provide an account of both the horrors and the
resilience of Jewish life under Nazi rule. Cammy bases his
translation on the two extant versions of the full text of the
memoir and includes Sutzkever's diary notes and full testimony at
the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. Fascinating reminiscences of leading
Soviet Yiddish cultural figures Sutzkever encountered during his
time in Moscow - Ehrenburg, Yiddish modernist poet Peretz Markish,
and director of the State Yiddish Theatre Shloyme Mikhoels - reveal
the constraints of the political environment in which the memoir
was composed. Both shocking and moving in its intensity, From the
Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg returns readers to a moment when the
scale of the Holocaust was first coming into focus, through the
eyes of one survivor who attempted to make sense of daily life,
resistance, and death in the ghetto. A Yiddish Book Center
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