keeper of words: Herman Kruk as diarist, archivist, and librarian of the Vilna ghetto

This is a discussion of the preservation of the memory of Jewish life in the ghetto as a form of resistance. Herman Kruk was the librarian in the Vilna ghetto. He recorded daily accounts of life in the ghetto. He perished during the Holocaust, but his diary has preserved valuable information about Jewish life in the Vilna ghetto