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Notes from the Valley of Slaughter - A Memoir from the Ghetto of Å iauliai, Lithuania (Paperback)
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Notes from the Valley of Slaughter - A Memoir from the Ghetto of Å iauliai, Lithuania (Paperback)
Series: Jewish Literature and Culture
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Notes from the Valley of Slaughter is an eyewitness journal and
diary of the Holocaust, written in the ghetto of Å iauliai,
Lithuania, by Dr. Aharon Pick (1872–1944). A physician, scholar,
and community leader, Pick was a keen observer of the hardships of
ghetto life, and his journal represents a detailed account of the
tragic events he witnessed as well as a sensitive, almost poetic
personal testament. Pick's journal covers the tumultuous late
1930s, the 1940–41 Soviet occupation of Lithuania, and the
catastrophic German invasion and occupation, during which more than
90 percent of Lithuania's Jews were murdered. Pick was among a
handful of Å iauliai Jewish physicians spared execution and
allowed to work for the occupiers. Although Pick succumbed to
illness in spring 1944, shortly before the ghetto was liquidated,
his son Tedik buried the manuscript before fleeing the ghetto,
retrieved it after liberation, and carried it with him to Israel.
Notes from the Valley of Slaughter is one of only a handful of
diaries to survive the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry. Translated
for the first time into English and extensively annotated, it
conveys Pick's voice to a wider international audience for the
first time.
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