KADDISH FOR KOVNO: LIFE AND DEATH IN A LITHUANIAN GHETTO 1941-1945
Chicago Review Press, 1988. Item #42315
1st edition. Original Publisher's Cloth in Dust Jacket. 8vo, 398 pages. In Kaddish for Kovno (the Kaddish is a prayer for the dead) William W Mishell documents in passionate detail the creation and then the obliteration of ghetto Kovno in Lithuania during the Nazi occupation of World War II. It is a troy of ingenuity and heroism as well as of horror and destruction. It illuminates the indomitable human spirit as the Jews of Kovno secured food, smuggled children to safety, set up hospitals, and even organised a ghetto orchestra in the face of numbing deprivations and brutality. A gripping account of four years no human could forget.On August 18, 1941, 534 Lithuanian-Jewish intellectuals were rounded up and shot by the Nazis. William Mishell nearly became victim number 535. Very Good Condition in Very Good Jacket (EE-7-4).
Price: $100.00