Hidden History Of The Kovno Ghetto - Hardcover

States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821224573 ISBN 13: 9780821224571

Publisher: Little, Brown US, 1998

Synopsis

In Summer 1941, special killing squads accompanied the German army's sweep through the Baltic States, murdering tens of thousands of Jews. In Kovno, Lithuania, however, four fifths of the city's 37,000 Jews were spared this deadly assault and were herded into a ghetto in the poor suburb of Vilijampole. For three nightmarish years, the jews of Kovno faced mass murders and endured forced labour and deportations. Without question, the brutal Nazi regime planned to exterminate them - and all traces of their ordeal.But the Jews of Kovno refused to let their suffering be forgotten. With photographs, paintings, drawings, letters, diaries and reports, they meticulously recorded their plight - and hid these artifacts and documents from their Nazi oppressors.
Now, more than fifty years later, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has gathered these extraordinary Kovno materials together for the first time. Drawn from individuals and archives in Lithuania, Israel and the United States, the documents and images collected in this moving book offer an unforgettable look at Jewish life and survival during the Holocaust.

About this title

Book Description:

History speaks for itself with documentary evidence.

About the Author:

Four scolars have contributed essays: Solon Beinfield, associate professor emeritus at Washington University; Lawrence Langer, professor emeritus at Simons College, Boston; Dov levin, a Kovno survivor now at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Jurgen Matthaus, a research fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown US
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0821224573
• ISBN 13: 9780821224571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240