[HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego

A$450 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

[=Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto]. Warsawa ; Łodz ; Krakow : [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in black (sunned at edges); pp. 40; printed on cheap paper which has browned, but in all other respects an excellent copy. A scarce eyewitness account of the liquidation of the Vilna (Vilnius) Ghetto, written only a short time after the events by a Jewish survivor who would become a significant figure in Melbourne s Jewish diaspora in the early postwar period. Trove locates only the copies in the University of Melbourne Library and the Monash University Library (Ada Booth Collection). Mendel Balberyszski (October 5, 1894 in Vilnius – November 19, 1966 in Melbourne) was a Lithuanian Jew, Polish politician and survivor of the Holocaust in Lithuania. He is chiefly known today as the biographer of the destruction of the Vilna Ghetto in his book Stronger Than Iron – The Destruction of Vilna Jewry 1941-1945: An Eyewitness Account . It is the account of life and organization in the Small Ghetto from its day of formation until its liquidation; it is also the only complete historical record of the fate of the Jewish population of Vilna from the day of the arrival of the Germans, through the two Ghettos, the concentration camps in Estonia until the liberation of the surviving 84 Jews by the Soviet Army. He was a Yiddish orator and a member of the editorial staff of the Vilnius Yiddish newspaper Der Tog. He became a leading

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