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Author

Kalman Linkimer

Edward Anders (edited by)‎

Rebecca Margolis (translated by)‎

Edition3rd edition

Call number940.5318092/0661

Object number08320

Place of publicationBurlingame, CA

PublisherAnders Press

Year of publication

2014

Physical description316p.,index

MaterialBook

ISBN9781312421042

NotesMargolis, Rebecca (translated by)

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Kalman Linkimer (1912-1988) started a diary in Yiddish on the first day of the war. He was forced to abandon it during his escape from a work camp, but resumed writing in a cellar in Liepaja where he was hidden with ten other refugees by a janitor, Robert Seduls and his wife for nearly two years. The diary is a vivid account of their stressful life in hiding as well as their dramatic escape stories. December 15-17, 1941, nearly 3,000 Jews were murdered at mass graves in the Skede dunes, near Liepaja, Latvia wherer an SS officer took photographs. One of Kalman's friends was David Zivcon an exceptionally skilled electrician working in the Liepaja German Security Police headquarters. He discovered negatives while making an electrical repair in a German officer’s quarters, stole them and had Jewish photo technician, Meir Stein, make prints. Zivcon concealed the prints in a tin, placing it behind a brick in a wall of the Security Police’s horse stables. He preserved the photos so that there would be evidence.
In 1942 Robert and Johanna Seduls hid the couple in a basement bunker for 19 months. Seduls constructed the new basement wall that created the secret room with “holy bricks” from the destroyed Liepaja synagogue. Had the Seduls not rescued David Zivcon, he may not have survived the Holocaust to retrieve the hidden photographs.

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