Jewish Telegraphic Agency: YIVO exhibit illuminates a diary kept by a 13-year-old boy in the Vilna ghetto
The online exhibit tells the story of Yitskhok Rudashevski, who documented his life in the ghetto from 1941 to 1943. Growing up in Vilna in the 1930s, Yitskhok Rudashevski was a typical 13-year-old ...
YIVO exhibit illuminates a diary kept by a 13-year-old boy in the Vilna ghetto
The Forward: The Woman Who Rescued Jewish Books From The Vilna Ghetto
The Forward: Poet Abraham Sutzkever’s memoirs of the Vilna Ghetto are now in English
Poet Abraham Sutzkever’s memoirs of the Vilna Ghetto are now in English
Plans to isolate all of the 50,000 Jews of Vilna in a ghetto similar to the ghettos established in Nazi-held Poland have been completed by the Nazi authorities, it was reported here today. The report ...
Publishers Weekly: The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944
This authoritative, stunningly edited edition of Kruk's acclaimed journals, news postings and poems of life and death in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna and later in a labor camp in Estonia is as major ...
The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944
The Forward: YIVO’s new online exhibition tells the story of cultural life in the Vilna ghetto
YIVO’s new online exhibition tells the story of cultural life in the Vilna ghetto
Some 75 years ago, a group of Jews under German occupation in Vilna was assigned to assist Nazi authorities in curating books and other cultural items destined for shipment to Germany. There, the ...