089218
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1990
15×23,5
meki
554
engleski
Cijena: 20,00 EUR
he book by Avraham Tory, edited by Martin Gilbert, represents one of the most important and deeply moving primary historical accounts of the Holocaust in the Baltic states. As a lawyer and secretary of the Jewish Council (Ältestenrat) in the Kovno Ghetto (Kaunas, Lithuania), Tory was in a position that granted him direct insight into Nazi orders, official documentation, and the internal workings of the ghetto itself. His wartime diary, covering the period from June 1941 to January 1944, provides an exceptionally precise chronicle of the daily struggle for survival, starvation, forced labor, and brutal mass liquidations, such as the infamous 'Great Action' of October 1941. Beyond minutely describing the horrific daily reality, the author documents the unimaginable moral dilemmas faced by the Jewish leadership as they attempted to balance ruthless Nazi demands with desperate efforts to save human lives. Aware of the historical weight of what he was recording, Tory risked his own life to secretly bury his diary, official documents, German decrees, and drawings by ghetto artists in five tin crates before his escape in 1944. After the war, the author successfully located and unearthed three of the crates, salvaging invaluable material that later served as crucial evidence in post-war trials against Nazi war criminals in Germany. This book is not only a poignant monument to the victims and a document of human resilience, but also an indispensable, seminal work for historians, collectors, and all researchers of World War II history.
