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50 Cents for a Life: A True Story of Surviving by Synchronicity.
Booklocker.com ISBN-13 978-1958892053 April 5, 2024
Amidst the panic of World War II Europe, a young Jewish man's desperate escape crossing perilous borders magically unfolds through the lens of synchronistic openings. Kept safe and sane by artistic talents and a miraculous fate, survivor's guilt for family loss casts its spell despite an enchanted life of accomplishment. A gripping true story painted with strokes of determination as a destiny is forever altered by unseen protection, perseverance, and the healing power of creative expression.
For almost half a century, details of Bernard's early life were kept hidden, even from his daughters. It was safer that way, afraid of what might occur if he allowed himself to feel.
He didn't share his unimaginable escape from Lithuania, alone at age 17, guided by angel-like synchronicity. He didn't share the horrific loss of family in the Holocaust and his relentless search for even a tiny drop of evidence about their paths.
Hiding behind a successful, busy life with his American family in the deep South, he finally surrendered to the emotional battle of survivor's guilt, haunted by visions of family he ached to honor.
It was time. His secret manuscript belonged with his four adult daughters. Incredible photos and documents accompanied raw words transmitting his story through the darkened eyes of an alone young man scrambling to survive.
Clearly, something magical safeguarded him. Unexpected synchronicities shielded his exit path where armies stood days before. A divine invitation to speak in Washington, DC shed sorrows for astounding connections. Newly discovered artistic talents transformed torment to inspiring beauty.
Enter this cathartic historical memoir with unique perspectives of survival, hope, and triumph, as anguish is transformed by artistry in a mission for self-peace, eclipsed by 50 cents that saved his colorful life.
- Bernard's deeply personal story inspires perseverance to continue on where paths appear impossible. Hold onto hope that magical unknown help is on the horizon.
- Historically informative details and timelines of WW2 theater follow his escape route from Eastern Europe to America, and, later, when sent back from whence he came, discover startling orders given to a non-U.S. citizen drafted into the U.S. military.
- A decades-long search for evidence about family members killed in the Holocaust, reveals bold, assertive actions in a quest for truth and validation of a town and life destroyed.
- Bernard's vivid descriptions invite sensory experiences with his every move:
When he is sad and lonely, we feel it in our hearts.
When he is in denial, we understand.
When he is intrigued, we're eager to jump in and help.
When he passionately paints to express and release, we join in each stroke of healing.
A touching memoir with lessons of history, artistic healing, and persevering to live life to the fullest.
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Accounting for Genocide: National Responses and Jewish Victimization During the Holocaust
(University of Chicago Press, 1979)
Anthology on Armed Jewish Resistance 1939-1945
Four volumes of short personal accounts of Jews under a variety of circumstances who resisted the Nazis during World War II. Many of the stories are about partisans fighting in Lithuania, eastern Poland, the Ukraine, Belarus. Many small vignettes, pictures. Indexes of hundreds of names. First volume published 1986, last volume 1991.
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Atlas of the Holocaust
(New York: William Morrow. and Company, Inc., 1993 (Revised edition), 282 pages, ISBN: 0-688-12364-3)
An atlas, with over 300 maps, numerous photos, indexes of places and persons, bibliography.
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Baltic Jews under the Soviets (English)
(Jerusalem: Centre for Research & Documentation of Eastern European Jewry, Hebrew University, 1994 )
Black Book, The
(Holocaust Publications, Inc., 1981, ISBN: 089604-032-1)
A powerful anthology of eyewitness accounts to the mass murder of Soviet Jewry, edited by one of the Soviet Union's best-known authors but suppressed by Stalin. Describes events in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Separate indices of place names and individuals. Much of the material is taken from the testimony presented to the official Extraordinary Commission to Ascertain and Investigate the War Crimes of the Fascist German Invaders and Their Accomplices.
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Book of Remembrance of the Jewish Community of Kybartai Lithuania, The
(Haifa: The Association of Former Kibart Citizens, 1988)
Available online at: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kybartai/kibart.html
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Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
(New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1994, 393 pages, ISBN: 0-385-42027-7)
A history of anti-semitism and rescues in many countries, written about from the point of view of a psychotherapist and social psychologist. Footnotes, bibliography, index.
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Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland, A
(Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu Press, 1996, 608 pages. ISBN: 0-9626373-9-4)
This and its companion volume, A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire, by Dr. Beider provide the most comprehensive scholarly studies of Jewish surnames in Eastern Europe.
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Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire, A
(Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu Press, 1993, 760 pages ISBN: 0-9626373-3-5)
This and its companion volume, A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland, by Dr. Beider provide the most comprehensive scholarly studies of Jewish surnames in Eastern Europe.
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Dr. Elkhanan Elkes of the Kovno Ghetto: A Son's Holocaust Memoir
(Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete Press, 1999. 119 pp., ISBN: 1-55725-231-9)
A memoir by the son of the head of the Kovno (Kaunas) Ghetto covering the period of the initial German invasion, June 22, 1941 to the Ghetto’s final destruction July 13-15, 1944. Previously unpublished photos from the author’s archives, Esther Lurie illustrations; notes and references, index.
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Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants Of the Vilna Gaon and His Family
(Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc, 704 pages, ISBN: 1886223068)
Excursion to Lithuania, An
(New York: Hudson Bay Press, 1934, 308 pages.
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A travelogue, written for a general audience, by a New York Jewish American born in Zeimelis, who takes a sea voyage back to his homeland, illustrated with his travel pictures. Some family names mentioned: ZEDERSTEIN, MILUNSKI, ZOHN, ISRAELSON, KAPLAN, Rabbi EPSTEIN of the Hebrew University of Slobodka (photo).
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Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry's Armed Resistance to the Holocaust 1941-1945
(New York, London: Holmes and Meier, 1985, 298 pages; re-issued as a paperback by Holmes and Meier in 1997)
Dov Levin, an eminent Israeli sociologist and former member of the Kovno ghetto underground, is one of the few Litvaks who actively participated in the war against the Germans and their allies as a member of the Lithuanian Division of the Soviet Army. His goal in writing this book was to uncover as many facts as possible about Lithuanian Jewry's participation in the struggle against the Germans (those in the Red Army, as well as the partisans, and fighters in the concentration camps and ghettos), and to record the events and names of the participants for posterity. Interviews with 165 survivors, extensive footnotes, bibliography, index of names and general index. Foreword by Yehuda Bauer.
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Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide
(Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, 1991, 1994, 241 pages. ISBN: 0-9626373-4-3)
A guide to translating vital statistic records in 13 languages: Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Each section shows the alphabet of the language, sample vital statistic records and their translation as well as a list of words commonly encountered in these records.
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For My Sons: A Family Genealogy
(Self Published/ TS, 1998, available from Joseph Lurie, PO Box 1158, Upton, Ma. 01568)
Family genealogy done with extensive use of Byelorussian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Israeli, and U.S. vital records, revision lists, census data, etc. Most complete/only genealogy of Danishevsky (over 1000 individuals from 1730's on),and only genealogy of Zadwin/Sadwin (400+ individuals) and Gutglick/Gutglik/Goodglick (550+ individuals) families. Also Luria, Halperin, Soloveichik, Slutzki, Gorovitz. Ties to Israelit, Lewin-Epstein, Vilna Gaon. Various biographical information, 150+ photographs, maps.
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From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial
(Schocken Books, 1983, ISBN: 0-8052-3867-0)
Contains selections drawn from over 60 memorial books. Most memorial books have never been translated from the original Hebrew or Yiddish. This book gives English speakers a unique opportunity to learn from a previously inaccessible resource. The memorial books are from towns within the area of Poland from 1921-1938, including towns now in Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania.
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From That Place and Time: A Memoir 1938-1947
(New York, London, W.W. Norton & Company, 1989, 333 pages, ISBN: 0-393-02674-4)
American Lucy Dawidowicz went to serve as an intern at YIVO in Vilna in 1938 and remained there until she had to leave when the war started. She returned to Vilna after the war. People and places are mentioned with good biographical information about her friends and YIVO personnel. There are excellent descriptions of Jewish life in Vilna in these years, local color, atmosphere of rooted culture, of anti-Semitism, daily life, streets, historic information about Lithuania and Jewish Lithuania, including its historic and religious personalities. The end papers are especially useful, including a map of Vilna in the 1930s with an inset of the Jewish quarter. Many sites in the text can be located on streets on the maps where streets are named. The text also gives alternative Jewish, Polish, and Lithuanian names for streets. Unfortunately, the book is out of print and the rights have been sold to Bantam which has no plans to republish it as of July, 1997.
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Ghetto in Flames: The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews of Vilna in the Holocaust
(Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1980; New York: Holocaust Library, 1982)
Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe, The
(London: Vallentine, Mitchell & Co., Ltd., 1967)
Heroes of the Holocaust, Extraordinary True Accounts of Triumph - Stories of 28 Ordinary People Who Found Themselves in Extraordinary Circumstances
(Berkley Books, 1993, ISBN: 0-425-16029-7)
These heroes were from Warsaw, Poland; Berlin, Germany; Lvov, Poland; Bukaczowce, Poland; Vienna, Austria; Kovno, Lithuania; Boryslav, Poland; Frankfurt, Germany; Dresden, Germany; Sosnoviec, Poland; Paris, France; Edgware, England; Vranov, Czechoslovakia; Zdunska Wola, Poland; Tlumacz, Poland; Denekamp, Holland; Budapest, Hungary; Bucharest, Romania; and Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Acts of courage and kindness are recounted in their stories.
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Heroism & Bravery in Lithuania 1941-1945
(Jerusalem/Hewlet, NY: Gefen Publishing House Ltd., 1996, 432 pages, ISBN: 965-229-155 2 )
A memoir, by a member of the anti-fascist fighting unit (AKO) of the Kaunas (Kovno) Ghetto, of life in the Ghetto, the Ninth Fort and the work of the AKO. Maps, photos, illustrations, lists (of Nazi war criminals mentioned in the book), index, short bibliographies in Hebrew, Lithuanian, Cyrillic.
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Heshel’s Kingdom
(Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1999; 243 pp. ISBN: 0-8101-1704-5)
A memoir. In 1919 the death of an Orthodox Rabbi, Heshel MELAMED, in Varniai, Lithuania led his widow and children to leave for South Africa. This book is the story of the return of Heshel’s son to Lithuania to search for his roots. Notes, references.
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Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto
(Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown & Co., 1997, 255 pages, ISBN: 0-8212-2457-3)
An oversized illustrated history with 127 color, and 233 B&W photos, this is a companion volume to a major exhibition at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Footnotes, bibliography, index, timelines. Part of the exhibit is viewable online.
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History of The Jews in South Africa, From the Earliest Times to 1895, A
(Johannesburg: South African Jewish Board of Deputies, 1935, 288 pages)
23 illustrations, appendices, index.
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Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania
Vilnius : Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono žydų muziejus, 2011
The book is also available online with an interactive map of the Holocaust in Lithuania.
371 pages with folded map. See http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/
ISBN 9789955767138
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Holocaust in Lithuania 1941-1945: A Book of Remembrance, The
A book about memory, its primary aim is to record and document the names of Lithuanian Jews who perished in the Holocaust. See further information on the Lithuanian Names Project page.
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Hope in Darkness (The Aba Gefen Holocaust Diaries)
(New York: The Holocaust Library, 1989, 184 pages, ISBN: 0-89604-126-9 )
A memoir: the diaries of Aba and Joseph Gefen, brothers in Kovno (Kaunas) from 1941-1944. Map.
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How Dark the Heavens: 1400 Days in the Grip of Nazi Terror
(New York, Shengold Publishers, 1990; 291 pages, ISBN: 0-88400-147-4)
A personal memoir in diary format covering June 22, 1941, in Janova, Lithuania (where 3,500 of the 4,500 inhabitants were Jews, and where Sidney's father, Moshe Iwensky, was head of the local Jewish community bank and a leader of the local Zionist movement), to the day Iwens was liberated: April 30, 1945, in Camp Allach, near Munich, Germany. His path first led northwest, to Daugavpils, Latvia, where less than 100 of the 16,000 Jews survived Nazi occupation and ghettoization. He managed to escape to the partisans, returned to the ghetto and finally was shipped west to Dachau. Very readable -- winner of the August Derleth Non-Fiction Book Award.
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If I Forget Thee...
(Yizkor Book)
Includes four chapters of detailed testimonies; a brief history of the shtetl Butrimonys (Butrimantz, Baltrimantz) in Lithuania; a Victim's list of almost 200 families; 33 pages of photographs; and other front and back matter. This book is entirely in English and is the first substantial publication about this community.
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In Search of Sugihara: The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked His Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust
(London-New York: Free Press, 1996, ISBN: 0684832518)
Biography of Chiune Sugihara, 1900-1986, a righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
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In Search of Your European Roots, Second Edition
(Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985, 1994, 292 pages ISBN: 0-8063-1446-X)
This guide to European research includes some information on East European and Jewish records.
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It Was But Yesterday - The Story of a Lithuanian Village
(Johannesburg, South Africa, Kayor Pub. Pacific Press: 1951)
The author describes life in Linkuva, Lithuania, before the horrors of the Holocaust destroyed its Jewish population.
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Jerusalem of Lithuania: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Vilnius: A Personal Perspective
(Mosaic Press, 1998, 210 pages, 1998, ISBN: 0889626596)
Jerusalem-of-Lithuania-Yerusalayim-de-Lita
This edition was published in by Ṿilner albom ḳomiṭeṭ in Nyu-Yorḳ. It was digitized and added to the library in April 2017. Published in Yiddish, 251 pages.
Three large volumes of text and illustrations on Vilnius and Jewish Lithuania. English, Yiddish, Russian. This is rich in detail. The third volume has indexes.
It can be downloaded from our Online Journal.
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Jewish Life Under the Tsars: The Autobiography of Chaim Aronson, 1825-1888, A
(Totowa, N.J.: Allanheld, Osmun & Co., 1983, 287 pages, ISBN: 0865980667)
Jewish State Museum, The
(Vilnius, Lithuania: The Jewish State Museum, 1996; 52 pages. ISBN: 9986901936)
The Museum’s official booklet, with numerous photos.
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Jewish Vital Records, Revision Lists and Other Jewish Holdings in the Lithuanian Archives
(New Jersey: Avotaynu, 1996, 160 pages. ISBN 1-886223-02-5)
Inventory of holdings of the State Historical Archives in Vilnius.
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Jews in South Africa: A History, The
(Cape Town, 1956)
A history of Jewry in South Africa from the earliest white settlement until 1955, this work describes the immigration of Jews, their settlement, and their adaptation to the cultural and economic life of South Africa. There are chapters that deal with Jewish communities in particular localities, and others that deal with more general topics, such as the Zionist Movement, the immigration of Lithuanian Jews, and the relations between Jews, Boers, and Uitlanders before the South African War. An epilogue covers the period from 1910 to 1955. Saron was chairman of The South African Jewish Board of Deputies for many years.
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Jews in the Lithuanian Press (A Bibliography) for the years 1985- 1987, The
(Vilnius, Lithuania: Jewish State Museum of Lithuania, c2000)
Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars, The
(Indiana University Press, 1989, 320 pages, ISBN: 0253204186)
Demographic, cultural, and socioeconomic conditions of East Central Europe Jewry; covers Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The book focuses on the internal life of Jewish communities in the region as well as on the relationships between Jews and gentiles in a highly nationalist environment.
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Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community, 1316 – 1945, The
(Jerusalem/Hewlett, NY: Gefen Publishing House Ltd., 1995, 405 pages, ISBN: 965-229-132-3)
A history. Masha was born in Kovno (Kaunas), lived in the Kovno ghetto, was sent to concentration camps in Estonia and Germany, and was liberated from Bergen-Belsen. Now in Israel. More than 2/3 of her book is about Pre-WWII Lithuania. Includes maps, illustrations, 8-pg town list, 6-page bibliography, index; extensively footnoted.
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Jurbarkas, The Memorial Book (Yizkor Book) for the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithuania
(Tel Aviv, 1991 Written in Hebrew and Yiddish, 524 pages)
Significant contributions for this material were made by members of the American branch of the Krelitz family and the Canadian branch of the Beiles families. All contributors and translators are indicated at the beginning of each article. The Yizkor book is now on line and completely translated. The link is: www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Jurbarkas/yurburg.html
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Kovno Ghetto Diary, The
(Moscow: State Publishing House,1948, Yiddish, 214 pages)
Translated from Yiddish to Russian by Chaim Bargman (1993). Translated from Russian to English by Robin O'Neil (1994)} Available online in translation. For further information, contact Robin O'Neil.
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Last Walk in Naryshkin Park
(North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press, 1997, 252 pages, ISBN: 1 875559 72 8)
In Zhager (Zagare), a small town on the Lithuanian-Latvian border, well over 3000 Jewish men, women and children were massacred on 2 October 1941, by members of the Lithuanian Militia. They lie in a mass grave in Naryshkin Park, the heart of the shtetl, where lovers once walked. Last Walk in Naryshkin Park is the story of Rose Zwi’s quest to discover the fate of her father’s family who perished in the Holocaust, and that of her uncle, Leib Yoffe -musician, lover, barber, soldier, revolutionary.
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Lekorot Ir Novohrdok Verabaneiha
This book (in Hebrew) is an old source for the history of the community and principle personalities (mainly rabbis). Novaredok, one of the oldest Jewish communities in Lithuania, is first mentioned in documents in 1529. It was within Poland until the third partition of Poland (1795), when it passed to Russia, and from 1842 a district capital in the province of Minsk. It reverted to Poland in 1921, but was passed to the Soviet Union in 1939.
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Life of an Immigrant, The
This autobiography traces life in Simnas, Lithuania, from 1864 of the Applebaum, Karchmarsky, and Krulewich families till 1880 emigration to Pittsburgh via Berlin and Hamburg on the SS Vaterland. Details the author's reunion with his father and early life in America peddling in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Illinois. Simnas shtetlinks page.
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Life: A True Story
(NY, NY: Vantage Press, 1988, 355 pages, ISBN: 0-533-07670-6)
This honest, thought provoking, and compelling autobiography describes the life and times of Steven V. Gure, a former New York City policeman. His is a remarkable story. Born into a family of wealthy European Jews, Steven found his life filled with horror and upheaval All of his family except his older sister, Ann, perished in the Holocaust. Eventually, Steven and Ann managed to make their way to the United States, where further insecurities awaited in the form of a series of foster homes, orphanages. With determination and perseverance, however, Steve managed to survive and even to prosper. He served in the military, worked his way through college, got married and had children, and joined the New York City police force. See website: www.lifeatruestory.com.
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Light One Candle: A Survivor’s Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem
(New York: Kodansha America, 1995, 353 pages, ISBN: 1-56836-098-3)
A memoir by a survivor of the Kovno (Kaunas) Ghetto, a boyhood friend of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul who save thousands of Jews by signing exit visas to Japan.
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Lita (Yiddish), Vol 1
(New York: Jewish Lithuanian Cultural Society, 1951.)
A partial online translation exists at: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lita/lita.html
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Lita (Yiddish), Vol 2
(Tel Aviv: IL Peretz Publishing, 1965)
A partial online translation exists at: https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/lita2/lita2.html
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Lithuania Memorial Book Yidishe shtet, stetlekh un dorfishe yishuvim in Lite 1918
New York: 1991
This book is in Yiddish and covers not only the shtetls that were in Lithuania in 1918. It is rich in details and is now available online courtesy of the David and Sylvia Steiner Yizkor Book Collection, Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library No. 14150.
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yizkor-books/yzk-nybc314150
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Lithuanian Jewish Communities
(New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991, 502 pages. Reprinted by Jason Aronson Inc., Northvale, NJ/London, ISBN: 1-56821-993-8)
A history. An unofficial English translation of the Hebrew Yehadut Lita, Vols. III, IV. With some additional material. Comprehensive commentary on communities, with lists of family names, glossary, bibliography. A remarkable source for researchers of Lithuanian Jewish history and for people descended from Lithuanian Jews. Short sketches, by town. Information is listed for the major Jewish communities before World War ll. Appendices list names of Lithuanian Jews who survived the War and the countries where they were found
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Litvaks: A short History of the Jews in Lithuania, The
Yad Vashem, 2000
This is a translation of the first 107 pages of Pinkas Hakehillot Lita, Encyclopedia of Jewish Lithuanian Communities from their foundation till after the Holocaust. Editor, Dov Levin. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1996. Professor Levin taped interviews with about 300 Litvaks (soldiers, partisans, community leaders, Ghetto Fighters,Art men, etc.) The theme and contents of this book serve as a short history of the Jews of Lithuania from the earliest settlements in the country until the destruction of the community in the Holocaust of the Second World War. The book's four main chronological sections describe the history of Lithuania and its Jewish residents, including: (1) Lithuania from the Late Thirteenth to the Late Twentieth Centuries; (2) The Jews of Lithuania from the Middle Ages until the end of the First World War; (3) The Jews in Independent Lithuania During the InterWar Period; and (4) W.W. 11 and the Holocaust: The Jewish Survivors. 300 pages, 60 plates, 3 Maps, Bibliography in seven languages, Lexicon of place names in both official modern description and the traditional spelling used by Jewish residents, statistical tables, Facsimiles of documents and unique photographs many of which appear in print for first time.
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Marijampole on the river Shewshupe
(Tel Aviv: Committee of Survivors from Marijampole in Israel, 1983, Hebrew, Yiddish, English, 319 pages})
Translation of the Necrology of: Marijampole al gedot ha-nahar Sheshupe (Lita)
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Memoirs of a Governor: A Man for the People
(New York: New York University Press, 1990, 494 pages, ISBN: 0-8147-6613-7)
In the opening chapters of this autobiographical memoir, the former governor of the US Virgin Islands, Ralph Paiewonsky, goes into great detail about his Paiewonsky and Kushner family background in Vilkaviskis and Mariampol, Lithuania, including life in the Age of Imperialism in Tsarist Russia, as well as the life of Lithuanian immigrants in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Index, photographs of Paiewonsky and Kushner family.
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My Childhood in Trishik: Recollections of a Lithuanian Shtetl
(Johannesburg: Ammatt Press, 2000, 130 pages, ISBN: 0-620-26108-0)
In her writing, Ita Melamed Hersch recalls her childhood in the 1870's and 1880's in Trishik (Tryskiai), the Lithuanian shtetl of her birth, her early married years in Warsaw in the 1890's, as well as her life as an immigrant in the Transvaal dorp of Elsburg, and later in Johannesburg. Originally written in Hebrew in Johannesburg in 1951, and later published in serial installments in Jacob Rubik's Hebrew journal Barkai in the 1950's, the full memoirs have recently been translated into English by her great-nephew Joshua Jacobson which is available from her grandson, Dr. Joshua Levy (joshlevy@hixnet.co.za) and published as a book, with Photographs, Foreword, Footnotes, Tributes, and Reproductions of the Hebrew columns.
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My Dear Hindalla, Remember Me: Letters From a Lost World, May 1937-January 1940
Windjammer Adventure Pub, 2011, Chagrin Falls, OH, 72 p., ill, ISBN 9780983130055
Translated from Yiddish into English by Hinda Zarkey Saul; annotations by Hinda Zarkey Saul and Marlene S. Englander.
In 1937 Hindalla (Hinda) Zarkey came to the United States from Lithuania. Her friend Berman began writing letters to her. This book is a collection of twenty-eight letters written by Nochum Berman in Yiddish, with English translations by the recipient, Hinda. Berman’s letters reveal what life was like in a small Lithuanian town in the late 1930’s, a way of life that unraveled as World War II erupted. Annotations provided by Hinda and her daughter Marlene.
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No Time for Patience: My Road from Kaunas to Jerusalem
(Newmarket, 1999, 128 pages, ISBN: 1557043868)
A Memoir of the Holocaust. Foreward by Shimon Peres.
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Noedn - en shtetl i Lund
(ISSN: 0347-7711)
History of the Jews of Sweden by a Swedish Archiivist. In Swedish.
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
(New York: Aaron Asher Books/ HarperCollins, 1992, ISBN: 0060995068)
A historical analysis. How is it possible that ordinary middle-aged men become mass murderers, personally shooting thousands of men, women and children? Browning’s book draws on the postwar interrogations of 125 former members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 (a unit of the German Order Police, or ordinary local policemen) from Hamburg, Germany. This unit of less than 500 men directly participated in the shooting deaths of at least 38,000 Jews in the Lublin district of Poland, and in the deportation of another 45,000 to Treblinka’s gas chambers. Browning’s conclusion: they acted less out of deference to authority or fear of retribution than from careerism and peer pressure. Photos.
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Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933-1945
(New York: Aaron Asher Books/HarperCollins Publishers, 1992, 340 pages, ISBN: 0-06-019035-3)
A history, examining and juxtaposing the lives and points of view of three distinct groups of people in the mass murder of Jews. Extensive footnotes, index.
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Rescue Attempts During the Holocaust
(Jerusalem: Yad Vashem)
Proceedings of the Second Yad Vashem International Historical Conference, April 1974
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Rescuers of Lithuanian Jews (2nd Volume)
(Vilnius, Lithuania: Jewish State Museum of Lithuania, c2000)
Road to Victory: Jewish Soldiers in the 16th Lithuanian Division
(Avotaynu, 2009)
The book contains first-person accounts about the participation of Lithuanian Jews who fought in the 16th Lithuanian Division of the Red Army.
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Russian-Jewish Given Names: Their Origins and Variants
(New Jersey: Avotaynu, 1998, 138 pages, ISBN: 1-886223-07-6)
Sefer Divenishok; yad vashem le-ayara yehudit, (Devenishki Memorial Book)
(Israel, Divenishok Societies in Israel and the United States, 1977, in Hebrew and Yiddish, 536 pages)
Two sections, the Necrology transliterated by Ellen Sadove Renck,and the Forward translated by Alma Cahn are available online here: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dieveniskes/dieveniskes.html
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Shadow of Death: The Holocaust in Lithuania, The
(Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1992, 174 pages, ISBN: 0-8131-1767-4)
A memoir of an ordinary teen-aged Kovno (Kaunas) boy through the Russian and German occupations, the Ghetto, and transfer to Auschwitz and then Dachau, highlighting the role of Lithuanians. Photographs, maps.
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Shtetl Finder Gazeteer
(Bowie, MD: Heritage Books Inc., 1989, 145 pages, ISBN: 1-55613-248-4)
A book of lists: Jewish communities in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the Pale of Settlement, with names of residents, Hatzefira obituaries, short list of Jewish communities in Russia, Germany territories, Hungary and Romania.
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Siauliai Ghetto: List of Prisoners, The
(Vilnius, Lithuania: Jewish State Museum of Lithuania, c2000)
Slaughter of the Jews of Erzhvilik
(1987; 30 double-spaced typewritten pages. Archived at Yad Vashem)
The collective and eyewitness testimony of Khayem GOLDSHTEYN, his wife Menukhe DRUKER, from Kelm. (His parents: Avrom-Berl and Gitl-Rivke PAGLINSKY
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Story of an Underground: the resistance of the Jews of Kovno in the Second World War, The
Jerusalem: Gefen, 2014
Widely acclaimed when this was originally published in Hebrew in 1962, it is now available in English including detailed maps and photos. Both authors, members of the Kovno underground, based their narrative on oral testimonies. They describe the Partisans, painting a picture of daily life.
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Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary
(Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1990, 554 pages, ISBN: 0-674-85811-5)
Time To Keep: Grammy Cherie's Story, A
(Merion Station, PA:Cherie Goren, 1999, 78 pages, with 28 captioned photographs)
This is a story of life in the 193O's in Memel, Lithuania, for the Golden and Fleischmann family, and of the Fleischmann family's immigration to the United States. This account relates their journey through pre-war Europe capturing the pathos and humor of their travels, and, finally, adjustment to America in 1939. This book can be ordered from cg407111@msn.com or 40 Old Lancaster Road #407, Merion Station, PA 19066; Phone: 610 664-8036; FAX: (610) 664-4619.
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To Give Them Light
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993, 160 pages, ISBN: 0671638726)
Roman Vishniac's previous collection, A Vanished World gives us a magnificent, kaleidoscopic view of Jewish life in distant cities and hamlets. Here the approach is more structured, more deliberate. After all, this is a posthumous book.... To Give Them Light takes us on a journey, an unforgettable journey, from Bratislava to Mukachevo and the Carpathians, where Jews believed in G-d's light alone; and on through the distinct and irreplaceable Jewish communities of Poland and Lithuania: Warsaw and Lodz, Lublin, and Cracow, Slonim, and Vilna. We meet Jews in those last minutes before they were torn from history by a tempest of fire and ashes; when their lives still coursed with energy and creativity. We encounter their towns and villages before they were consumed by flames.
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Vilna (Vilnius)
(Philadelphia and Jerusalem: The Jewish Publication Society of America, Facsimile edition, 1992. Originally published 1943)
Vilniaus Getas (Vilnius Ghetto), Lists of Prisoners, Vols. I & 2
(Vilnius, Lithuania: Jewish State Museum of Lithuania, 1996)
Vol. I contains 15,300 names of Jews who were living in the Vilnius Ghetto in 1942, listed by street address, together with interesting articles and information written in English. Vol. 2 lists the names and information about the Jews living in the various work camps in the vicinity of Vilnius. Important explanations about the work camps themselves are also included. Vol. 2 contains all of the names from both volumes, listed alphabetically, including the Vol. and page number for easy reference. The book is out of print and can be found in some. university libraries.
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War Criminal on Trial: Rauca of Kaunas
(Toronto, Canada: Key Porter Books Ltd., 1998, 256 pages, ISBN: 1-55013-967-3)
First published in 1983, this is a revised update by a reporter who covered the story from the beginning, highlighting the failure of the Canadian war crimes prosecution program. Helmut Rauca, who died of natural causes in 1983, was an SS officer charged with aiding and abetting in the murder of 10,500 persons on or about October 28, 1941 in Kaunas (Kovno) Lithuania. Finding sanctuary in Canada for over 30 years, he was the first Nazi war criminal in Canada to be extradited (to GERMANY) for war crimes. Footnoted, with a bibliography and index
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We Shall Not Forget!: Memories of The Holocaust
(Massachusetts: Temple Isaiah of Lexington, 1995, ISBN: 0-9637686-0-3 1995)
Forty two powerful essays, including over 200 photographs, written by Holocaust survivors and sons and daughters of survivors, who are now all members of Temple Isaiah in Lexington, Massachusetts. These stories of family survival or death took place in Vienna & Burgenland, Austria; in Landau, Bielefeld, Feurth, Berlin, Heidelberg, & Hessen, Germany; in Aarberg, Switzerland; in Paris, France; in Lwow, Tarnopol, Stojanow, Bialystok, Lodz, Warsaw, Pultusk, Brzeziny, Wloclawek, Zychlin, & Drobnin, Poland; in Amsterdam & Sandvort, Holland; in Novo_Svenciana, Shavl, & Vilna, Lithuania; in Salonika, Greece; and in Baranovich & Vitebsk, Russia.
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Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust
(Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu Press, 1991, 514 pages, ISBN: 0-9626373-1-9)
A gazetteer of over 21,000 Central and Eastern European localities, arranged alphabetically and phonetically, with references for each locality.
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Yahudat Lita Vol 2
(Tel Aviv: The Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, 1972)
Vol 2: 1918-1941
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Yahudat Lita Vol 3
(Tel Aviv: The Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, 1967)
Vol 3: A: People B: Places
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Yidishe Shtete Shtetlech un Dorfishe Yishvim in Lite
(New York, 1991, 796 pages)
Jewish Cities, Towns and Villages in Lithuania up to 1918. This is a scholarly survey in Yiddish of Lithuanian localities.
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Zelva (Lithuania) Yizkor List
We are indebted to Mr. Menachem Charit for compiling this list of his Pazelva neighbors. Our sincere appreciation to Yehuda Wolfson of Israel who sent this material to Steven Weiss to be translated and donated to JewishGen
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