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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
A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
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If one looks closely at the passers-by in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto one can see that the overwhelming majority of them are not originally from Warsaw, but are from…

Contributor:

Abraham Lewin

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Jewish identity, Cities, Genocide, Holocaust

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage
Façades for the International Commission
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In the Terezin concentration camp, before a visit by the International Red Cross and the Danish Red Cross in 1944, the Nazis created an elaborate ruse, designed to convince the delegation that the…

Contributor:

Bedrich Fritta

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Date:

1943–1944

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Genocide, Nazis, Holocaust

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Sketch of storefronts next to a pile of corpses and brick wall and a couple is kissing against a wall in left foreground.
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