Herman Kruk Vilna Ghetto Diary Chronicles sku-41677493

Herman Kruk sku-41677493 is listed under Religion & Religious Studies Books. The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania is a hardcover collection of his accounts of Vilna, its ghetto and concentration camps in Estonia from 1939-1944.

Kruk records the collapse of Poland in September 1939, his life as a refugee, the destruction of much of Vilna's Jewish community in 1941, and the remaining community's persecution and self-rule. He buried his final entry on September 17, 1944, hours before he and other inmates were killed.

The volume includes a first translation of the Yiddish diaries published in 1961, along with recovered pages that were deciphered, translated and annotated. It was co-published with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.