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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
In These Nightmarish Days
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Here you have him, the proud Jew. The Jew who ruled his kingdom with a high hand in complete despotism: here is the Jew who never heeded anyone’s advice, who did everything with his own hand and…

Contributor:

Josef Zelkowicz

Places:

Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Children, Death, Rebellion

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage, Literature