Creator Bio
Herman Kruk
1897–1944
Herman Kruk was a librarian and labor activist. Serving as director of the Bund’s Grosser Library at the Cultural League in Warsaw, he fled to Vilna at the beginning of World War II. While confined to the Vilna ghetto he organized a library for the Jewish community. His diary, which he kept until 1944, was hidden in the Vilna ghetto; parts of it were recovered after the war and published by YIVO in 1961. Kruk perished in Estonia.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps
I weep, and am amazed. I have seen death so many times and have controlled myself. Have experienced so much torment, disgrace, and humiliation, and…