Smuggled In Potato Sacks - Fifty Stories of the Hidden Children of the Kaunas Ghetto (Paperback)

About 5,000 children were imprisoned in the Kaunas Ghetto from 1941-1944, of whom some 250-300 were smuggled out of the ghetto, hidden by Gentiles and survived. This book is a collective memory of events that happened to Kaunas Jewry during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania. It contains 50 stories of people who suffered through the Holocaust in their childhood in Kaunas. Most of the contributors are writing about their ordeal for the first time, after more then 60 years of silence. The stories cover the background of the families before the war, life in the Ghetto, and the main tragic events that happened in Kaunas during three years of fascist regime in Lithuania. The memoirs describe how children were smuggled out of the Ghetto and their experiences and feelings living with the gentiles who sheltered them.

General

Imprint:	Vallentine Mitchell
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	Solomon Abramovich • Yakov Zilberg
Dimensions:	226 x 146 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-85303-824-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-85303-824-4
Barcode:	9780853038245

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