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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania
The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944 | Herman Kruk, Benjamin Harshav
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For five years, Kruk recorded experiences documenting the life and resistance of European Jews in the shadow of imminent death. This book includes all recovered pages of his diaries and provides an account of the annihilation of Vilna.
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"Why do you write in such hard times? Why and for whom?... For we won't live to see it anyway."

Much of my extended Polish family perished in the Holocaust. Dad and his parents survived in Warsaw on false papers.

Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day. This opening poem, originally written in Yiddish by Herman Kruk, found after the war is haunting. But we must remember not just today, but always. History can repeat itself.

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