Surviving the Holocaust : the Kovno Ghetto diary

Author(s)

• Tory, Avraham
• Gilbert, Martin
• Porat, Dina

Bibliographic Information

Surviving the Holocaust : the Kovno Ghetto diary

Avraham Tory ; edited with an introduction by Martin Gilbert ; textual and historical notes by Dina Porat ; translated by Jerzy Michalowicz

Harvard University Press, 1990

Note

Translation of a diary originally written in Yiddish

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944, written by a Ghetto inmate. Through it all , Avraham Tory's purpose was to record the events of those years and to memorialise the determination of the Jews to sustain life in the midst of the Nazi terror.

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Details

• NCID: BA11145042
• ISBN:
  • 0674858107
• LCCN: 89007496
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: yid
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xxiv, 554 p., [28] p. of plates
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS135.R93
  • DC20 : 940.53/18/09475
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Jews -- Lithuania -- Kaunas -- Persecutions
  • LCSH : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Kaunas -- Personal narratives
  • LCSH : Tory, Avraham
  • LCSH : Kaunas (Lithuania) -- Ethnic relations