Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. First Edition. First Printing. 554, illus., maps, index, usual library markings, marginal ink marks in index, somewhat shaken, DJ in plastic sleeve, pasted to bds. Textual and historical notes by Dina Porat. 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, Avraham Tory was forced to entrust his diary to leaders of the escape movement; eventually it made its way to his new home in Israel. Condition: good, ex-lib., fair.
Keywords: Anti-Semitism, Genocide, Concentration Camps, Black Market, Elchanan Elkes, Hans Cramer, Kovno Ghetto, Lithuania, Holocaust
ISBN: 0674858107
[Book #42842]
Price: $31.50