"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...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Gar, Yôsēf 1905-1989 (HerausgeberIn), Zilber, Ettie 1949- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY JewishGen [2024]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1940-1944 Judenvernichtung Kaunas Jews / Lithuania / Kaunas / History / 20th century Jews / Persecutions / Lithuania / Kaunas Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / Lithuania Jewish ghettos / Social conditions World War, 1939-1945 / Atrocities Kaunas (Lithuania) / History / 20th century
Zusammenfassung:	"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. [...]"
Beschreibung:	Includes indexes "Originally published in Munich 1948"
Beschreibung:	xxii, 286 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Notenbeispiele 29 cm
ISBN:	9781954176652