LIKWIDACJA GETTA WILENSKIEGO
Warszawa; Lódz: Zaklady Graficzne WINW: Centralna Zydowska Komisja Historyczna, 1946. Item #43329
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 40 pages. 21 cm. In Polish. Title translates as, "The Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto." Includes bibliographical references.
Personal eyewitness account by Mendel Balberyszski (1894–1966), a prominent Vilna Jewish leader and later Holocaust survivor, detailing life in the Vilna Ghetto and its destruction under German occupation. Balberyszski served on the Advisory Council of the “small ghetto,” opposing Judenrat collaborationist policies. He survived both the liquidation of the ghetto and the Holocaust.
Balberyszski, a Lithuanian-Polish Jewish politician and journalist, was prewar editor at Vilna’s Der Tog and active in the Folkspartei and later the Polish Democratic Party. After the war, he emigrated to Melbourne, where he became a leading communal figure. His memoir was later republished in English as Stronger than Iron: The Destruction of Vilna Jewry, 1941–1945 (2010).
Pages 38-40 detail a list of 35 titles issued 1945–46 by the Historical Commission, documenting early postwar Jewish testimony efforts.
SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Lithuania Vilnius. Jewish ghettos Lithuania Vilnius. World War, 19391945 Lithuania Vilnius Atrocities. Jews Lithuania Vilnius. OCLC: 13911170. Very Good Condition overall. (B) (H2-3-5-VLGGAMPCCFE*-XBB).
Price: $150.00