Jerusalem of Lithuania: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Vilnius : a Personal PerspectiveMemoirs of a Jew born in Vilna in 1924. Dwells on the period of the Nazi occupation, describing the Vilna ghetto and the resistance organization. Shneidman left Vilna on the second day of the war, but only got as far as the town of Taboryszki (now Tabariáškes), where he witnessed the murder of the local Jews. He then returned to Vilna and was interned in the ghetto between July 1941-September 1943, where he was active in the resistance. In 1943, several days before the liquidation of the ghetto, he escaped and joined a partisan unit. Relates incidents of antisemitism among the Soviet partisans in the vicinity south of Vilna. After the Soviet recapture of Vilna in 1944, the Jews were exposed to official Soviet antisemitism. |
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b The Jews of Vilna | 9 |
The City of My Youth | 22 |
a The First Shock | 43 |
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