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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania - Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania - Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and
concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own
experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community
of the city symbolically called "The Jerusalem of Lithuania." This
unique chronicle includes many recovered pages of Kruk's diaries
and provides a powerful eyewitness account of the annihilation of
the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. This volume includes the
Yiddish edition of Kruk's diaries, published in 1961 and translated
here for the first time, as well as many widely scattered pages of
the chronicles, collected here for the first time and meticulously
deciphered, translated, and annotated. Kruk describes vividly the
collapse of Poland in September, 1939, life as a refugee in Vilna,
the manhunt that destroyed most of Vilna Jewry in the summer of
1941, the creation of a ghetto and the persecution and self-rule of
the remnants of the "Jerusalem of Lithuania," the internment of the
last survivors in concentration camps in Estonia, and their brutal
deaths. Kruk scribbled 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 and their
bodies burnt on a pyre. Kruk's writings illuminate the tragedy of
the Vilna Jews and their courageous efforts to maintain an
ideological, social, and cultural life even as their world was
being destroyed. To read Kruk's day-by-day account of the unfolding
of the Holocaust is to discern the possibilities for human courage
and perseverance even in the face of profound fear. Co-published
with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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