Abraham Sutzkever
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Abraham Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust."
Sutzkever in 1950
Abraham Sutzkever, 1962
Vilna Ghetto
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The Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania, at the time part of the Nazi-administered Reichsko
Abraham Sutzkever
…Freydke in 1939, a day before the start of World War II. In 1941, following the Nazi occupation of Vilnius, Sutzkever and his wife were sent to the Vilna Ghetto. Sutzkever and his friends hid a diary by Theodor Herzl, drawings by Marc Chagall and Alexander Bogen, and other treasured works behind plaster and…
Vilna Ghetto (Julian Klaczko Street), 1941
Lithuanian Nazi policeman with Jewish prisoners, July 1941
A monument in memory of the Jews of Vilnius who were murdered in the Holocaust. In Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv
Straszuna Street (the Polish name), now Žemaitijos Street, in the former ghetto