The last days of the Vilna ghetto - pages from a diary

Cohen, Nathan, 1961-
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Title The last days of the Vilna ghetto - pages from a diary.
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 31 (2003) 15-59
Description Presents an English version of the extant pages of a diary by Gabik Heller (pp. 24-59), originally written in Yiddish, covering the period February, August, and September 1943. Heller was a young man who worked together with Herman Kruk in the ghetto library. The diary describes the atmosphere during the last year, when the ghetto saw several Nazi "actions", deportations to labor camps in Estonia, and an uprising attempt. The introduction (pp. 15-24) describes events in the Vilna ghetto in 1943 and the personality of Gabik Heller. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
See also in Hebrew.
The diary of Gabik Heller, 4.2.43-22.9.43. Including translation of the diary (pp. 24-59).
Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
National Library system number 990004078150705171
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באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

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