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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
Introduction to the Projected Anthology Auschwitz
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All of us—dying here in polar, ice-cold indifference of nations, forgotten by the world and its hustle and bustle—have nonetheless felt the need to leave something for posterity: if not complete…

Contributor:

Avraham Levite

Places:

Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)

Date:

1945

Subjects:

Holocaust, Antisemitism, Death, Genocide, Memory

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & Diaries
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