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Hebrew ed. (1968)

{en} Yitskhok Rudashevski. The Diary of the Vilna Ghetto (2016). <French ed.>

• See Yitskhok Rudashevski (M / Lithuania, 1927-1943), Holocaust victim

• KEYWORDS : <Lithuania> <Vilna Ghetto> <Ponary>

• Originally published in Hebrew (Tel Aviv: ha-Kibuts ha-meuhad, 1968). Also published in English (1973), and Lithuanian/Yiddish (2018).

Abstract

Yitskhok Rudashevski wrote a diary from June 1941 to April 1943 (age 14-16), when living in the Vilna Ghetto. The diary, which detailed his life and struggles in the ghetto, was discovered by his cousin Sore Voloshin, in 1944. His cousin Voloshin fought the German army and the Soviet Union, later returning to the hideout, and found Yitskhok's diary.

"This is the diary of one of the "other Anne Franks," teen diarists of the Holocaust who are not nearly as famous as she. Yitskhok Rudashevski was fourteen when he began his diary in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania during the Nazi occupation. He was a gifted writer and wrote movingly of how his family and all the other Vilna Jews were confined to a ghetto and the ghetto kept shrinking and shrinking as the Nazis conducted "Aktions" and killed vast numbers of people, usually by machine-gunning them en masse at nearby Ponar. Rudashevski did not survive; he and his family went into hiding, but they were caught and almost all of them were executed. He was fifteen years old when he died. His account of the suffering of the Vilna Jews, and his own struggle to remain human amid the disaster, is well worth reading."--Publisher description.

About the Author

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Yitskhok Rudashevski was born December 10, 1927 in Vilna, Lithuania. As a young Jewish teenager he lived in the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania during the 1940s. He was shot to death in the Ponary massacre on Oct 1, 1943 during the liquidation of September–October 1943.