Surviving the Holocaust: the Kovno ghetto diary
TitleSurviving the Holocaust: the Kovno ghetto diary
Author
Call number940.531809475/0001
Object number00693
Place of publicationCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
PublisherHarvard University Press
Year of publication
1990
Physical description554p.,index, maps
MaterialBook
ISBN0674858107
Description
A chronicle of life and death in the Jewish ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944 which was written under conditions of extreme danger by a Ghetto inmate and secretary of the Jewish Council. One of the interesting facts to emerge from the diary is the relationship between Catholic clergy and the leaders of the ghetto, which suggests that "some clergy were guided by a potent sense of obligation toward the Jews as marginalised victims."