The Destruction Of Jewish Kovno Kaunas Lithuania
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The Destruction Of Jewish Kovno Kaunas Lithuania
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Author : Joseph Gar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-12-04
The Destruction Of Jewish Kovno Kaunas Lithuania written by Joseph Gar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-04 with categories.
The ghetto in Kovno has its own tragic place in history because of the cruelty of conditions there and the revolt of Jews towards the end of its days. The dire circumstances of the ghetto became more widely known after World War II with the discovery of secret archives, diaries, drawings, and photographs that had been buried in the ground when the ghetto was destroyed. These told the story of Jewish community's defiance, oppression, resistance, and death. Between 1920 and 1939, Kovno, located in central Lithuania, was the country's capital and largest city. From a small provincial city, it grew into a modern city, and became heir to the best traditions of the historically famous Lithuanian Jewry, with traditions from the nucleus of Jewishness, culture, learning, modern social-political movements, and people of Israel. Kovno had a Jewish population of approximately 32,000, about one-fourth of the city's total population, before the Germans and their Lithuanian auxiliaries began their systematic massacres in 1941. This book was written in the years just after the war and drew on interviews with Kovno survivors after their liberation, many of them in Displaced Persons camps. The Preface says that This is the first book laying out a detailed account of what happened in the Ghetto. At its peak, the ghetto held an estimated 29,000 people, most of whom were later sent to concentration and extermination camps or were shot after being rounded up and crowded into the notorious "9th Fort," one of several that had been constructed under the Russian Empire in the late nineteenth century for the defense of the city. The book describes the fort as one of the most horrible Nazi mass annihilation sites in Lithuania. Kovno was liberated by the Red Army on August 1, 1944. A few days later, little by little, the few miraculously surviving Jews started to return to the city. Everyone's first job was to run and see what the destruction of the Ghetto looked like. The images that they saw on the site of the former Ghetto were horrific. In the Ghetto not a single house was left intact. All the wooden houses were completely burned. The large, massive walls of the walled block of houses were lying in ruins, like after an earthquake. Throughout entire areas of the Ghetto the monstrous skeletons of dead and burned Jews were seen. One of the last chapters in the book ends this way: On the seventh day of mourning, we bow our heads in great awe to the scattered holy ashes of our murdered and burned men and women, from elderly to babies, we whisper the ancient Jewish prayer: "That their souls should be wrapped in bundles of life."
The Truth And Nothing But The Truth
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Author : Aleks Faitelson
language : en
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Release Date : 2006
The Truth And Nothing But The Truth written by Aleks Faitelson and has been published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
In this, the authors twelfth book, Faitelson tells the exhaustive and authentic story of the escape from the Ninth Fort at Kovno. Faitelsons original account was published in seven languages. This new edition presents a broad gallery of cynical and cruel Nazi murderers wild beasts on two legs, the organisers and leaders of the mass murder of the Jews of Kovno, as well as the thousands of Jews brought to the Ninth Fort from central and western Europe. At the same time, there is a description of the Actions the mass murders of men, women, children and the elderly whose only crime was to be born to a Jewish mother. At the heart of the story are the corpse-burners, the preparations they made to escape from hell, the escape itself and the fate of the escapees.
The Litvaks
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Author : Dov Levin
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2000
The Litvaks written by Dov Levin and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
Discusses some aspects of antisemitism in Lithuania, especially in socioeconomic terms, in the Middle Ages and under the Russian tsars. The 20th-century interwar period saw the introduction of anti-Jewish laws that negatively impacted on Jewish political involvement, economic activity, and physical security, and the situation worsened with a right-wing coup, at which time Nazi influence grew among the German minority. The peak of antisemitism is treated in pt. 4 (pp. 187-247), "World War II, the Holocaust, and the Jewish Survivors". Although Soviet rule in 1940-41 ended many restrictions, it harmed Jews culturally and economically; many were arrested or exiled. The Nazi occupation which followed led to the destruction of Lithuanian Jewry. Even before the arrival of the German army, ca. 10,000 Jews were murdered by Lithuanians. German troops brought the Final Solution, in which Lithuanian collaboration was massive. Discusses ghettos, forced labor, and concentration camps, as well as Jewish partisan resistance. 96% of Lithuanian Jews were killed. Popular antisemitism was revived in postwar Lithuania. The issues of Lithuanian-Nazi collaboration and the Lithuanian association of Jews with communists to justify the massacre of Jews during World War II remained problems in the postwar and even post-communist periods.
Kaddish For Kovno
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Author : William W. Mishell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-03
Kaddish For Kovno written by William W. Mishell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03 with History categories.
In Kaddish for Kovno (the Kaddish is a prayer for the dead) William W Mishell documents in passionate detail the creation and then the obliteration of ghetto Kovno in Lithuania during the Nazi occupation of World War II. It is a troy of ingenuity and heroism as well as of horror and destruction. It illuminates the indomitable human spirit as the Jews of Kovno secured food, smuggled children to safety, set up hospitals, and even organised a ghetto orchestra in the face of numbing deprivations and brutality. A gripping account of four years no human could forget.
The Shadow Of Death
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Author : Harry Gordon
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 1992-01-01
The Shadow Of Death written by Harry Gordon and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with History categories.
" Holocaust survivor Harry Gordon recalls in brutal detail the anguished years of his youth, a youth spent struggling to survive in a Lithuanian concentration camp. A memoir about hope and resilience, The Shadow of Death describes the invasion of Kovno by the Red Army and the impact of Soviet occupation from the perspective of the ghetto's weakest and poorest class. It also serves as a reminder that the Germans were not alone responsible for the persecution and extermination of Jews.
Smuggled In Potato Sacks
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Author : Solomon Abramovich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Smuggled In Potato Sacks written by Solomon Abramovich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
About 5,000 children were imprisoned in the Kaunas Ghetto from 1941-1944, of whom some 250-300 were smuggled out of the ghetto, hidden by Gentiles and survived. This book is a collective memory of events that happened to Kaunas Jewry during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania. It contains 50 stories of people who suffered through the Holocaust in their childhood in Kaunas. Most of the contributors are writing about their ordeal for the first time, after more then 60 years of silence. The stories cover the background of the families before the war, life in the Ghetto, and the main tragic events that happened in Kaunas during three years of fascist regime in Lithuania. The memoirs describe how children were smuggled out of the Ghetto and their experiences and feelings living with the gentiles who sheltered them.
Resistance And Survival
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Author : Sara Ginaitė-Rubinsonienė
language : en
Publisher: Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press c2005.
Release Date : 2005
Resistance And Survival written by Sara Ginaitė-Rubinsonienė and has been published by Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press c2005. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
Considered to be one of the seminal works on Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust period.
The Story Of An Underground
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Author : Abraham Zvie Bar-On
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Story Of An Underground written by Abraham Zvie Bar-On and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Electronic books categories.
Heroism Bravery In Lithuania 1941 1945
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Author : Aleks Faitelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Heroism Bravery In Lithuania 1941 1945 written by Aleks Faitelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The English edition includes a list of 22 Nazi criminals who were directly responsible for the extermination of the Jews of Lithuania (pp. 413-415), giving their dates of birth and death, rank, and fate.
Surviving The Holocaust
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Author : Avraham Tory
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1991-09-01
Surviving The Holocaust written by Avraham Tory and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-09-01 with History categories.
This remarkable chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944, was written under conditions of extreme danger by a Ghetto inmate and secretary of the Jewish Council. After the war, in order to escape from Lithuania, the author was forced to entrust the diary to leaders of the Escape movement; eventually it made its way to his new home in Israel. The diary incorporates Avraham Tory’s collections of official documents, Jewish Council reports, and original photographs and drawings made in the Ghetto. It depicts in grim detail the struggle for survival under Nazi domination, when—if not simply carted off and murdered in a random “action”—Jews were exploited as slave labor while being systematically starved and denied adequate housing and medical care. Through it all, Tory’s overriding purpose was to record the unimaginable events of these years and to memorialize the determination of the Jews to sustain their community life in the midst of the Nazi terror. Of the surviving diaries originating in the principal European Ghettos of this period, Tory’s is the longest written by an adult, a dramatic and horrifying document that makes an invaluable contribution to contemporary history. Tory provides an insider’s view of the desperate efforts of Ghetto leaders to protect Jews. Martin Gilbert’s masterly introduction establishes the authenticity of the diary, presents its events against the backdrop of the war in Europe, and considers the crucial questions of collaboration and resistance.