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Comprend les noms: H Kruk, הערמאַן קרוק

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Nom canonique
Kruk, Herman
Autres noms
Kruk, Hershl
Date de naissance
1897-05-19
Date de décès
1944-09-19
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Poland
Lieu de naissance
Plock, Poland
Lieux de résidence
Warsaw, Poland
Vilnius, Lithuania
Estonia
Professions
librarian
diarist
trade union leader
journalist
Courte biographie
Herman (Hersz) Kruk was born to a Jewish family in Plock, Poland. His parents were Hanoch and Pesa Kruk. He did military service in the Polish Army in World War I. He joined the Jewish Labor Bund, a socialist party, in about 1920 and was a journalist for its publication. He also became a librarian and was named director of the organization's Grosser Library in Warsaw. In 1938, he married Paulina Varadi. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland at the start of World War II, Kruk fled Warsaw to Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania. There he was confined to the Vilna Ghetto. During 1941-1942, he organized and oversaw the operation of a library in the Ghetto. He also played an active role in several of the
Ghetto's social welfare and cultural organizations. He was keeping a diary of his experiences that continued after he was deported to the Klooga and Lagedi concentration camps in Estonia. His last entry was made on September 17, 1944, when he buried his diaries in front of witnesses inside the camp. The following day, he and almost all the other prisoners were forced to carry logs and pile them into a pyre, where they were shot and then burned by the Nazis. The Red Army arrived the following day to find the aftermath. Kruk's diary was recovered and published in 1961 by the YIVO Institute in the original Yiddish. An expanded English edition, The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 1939-1944, was published in 2002.
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Herman Kruk, a librarian, lived in Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania during the early days of the Holocaust. He kept a diary of his time in the ghetto which extended to a concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia where he and other Jews were eventually exterminated. This is an important diary because it chronicle what everyday life was like for the Jews in Vilna Ghetto at the time. It is a fascinating read even though it is slightly over 700 pages. Rarely does one read a chronicle of events that touches the day to day existence of Jews suffering through the Holocaust at the level in which this work does. It is remarkable that this diary made it through the Holocaust to be read by us today.… (plus d'informations)
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thornton37814 | 1 autre critique | Mar 3, 2012 |
This is a must read for those who need to know and want to know how life was for the Jews during the time of WWII, how they lived from day to day, not knowing if they would survive. As a Jew whose ancestry lies in Lithuania, a Jew whose ancestors came from Silale, in the Kaunus/Kovno Gubernia, and Rumshishok, I am unable to articulate my thoughts and feelings properly, and I cannot say enough positive things about this book.
 
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LorriMilli | 1 autre critique | Jul 2, 2009 |

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