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A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…

Contributor:

Zelig Kalmanovitch

Places:

Vilna, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Death, Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Jewish identity, Genocide

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing
The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps
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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…

Contributor:

Herman Kruk

Places:

Vilnius, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Passover, Genocide, Death

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Poetry, Literature
Call to Arms
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Vilna ghetto partisan leader Abba Kovner publicly predicted the Final Solution weeks before the Wannsee conference finalized the Nazis’ plans to systematically murder millions of Jews.

Contributor:

Abba Kovner

Places:

Vilna, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Rebellion, Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Death, Martyrdom

Categories:

Political Culture, Apocalyptic
Abba Kovner
Last Will and Testament
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My beloved son and daughter! I am writing these lines, my dear children, in the vale of tears of…

Contributor:

Elhanan Elkes

Places:

Kovno, USSR (Kaunas, Lithuania)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Family, Will & testament, Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Nazis

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Wills, Testaments & Bequests