"Since god called to spring and slaughter together.
The sun was shining, the acacia blooming,
and the slaughterer slaughtered"
"Master of the world, make a miracle that evil
Shall not reach me"
(From the poem "In the city of slaughter",
by H. N. Bialik, 1904)
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Translation from Hebrew: Yossef Rothman
To my wife Chayah
and my daughters Edith and Tamar
with love
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Foreword
A word from the translator
Introduction to the Hebrew Original version
Ch. 1 - Vicissitudes and Fate
Ch. 2 - My Parents of blessed memory
Ch. 3 - My Childhood in Shteitl
Ch. 4 - Matriculation and Maturity
Ch. 5 - BA. In Anti-Semitism (1935-1940)
Ch. 6 - The Communists Are Coming (September 1939 – June 1941)
Ch. 7 - The Germans Enter Vilna (June 24, 1940)
Ch. 8 - To The Ghetto
Ch. 9 - The Underground Gets Organized
Ch. 10 - Vittenberg Day - July 16, 1943
Ch. 11 - To The Forest
Ch. 12 - In Shura Bogen's Special Company
Ch. 13 - Anti-Semitism In The Forests
Ch. 14 - Liberation
Ch. 15 - Returning Home
Ch. 16 - My Holocaust
Ch. 17 - Destination - Eretz Isroel
Ch. 18 - “The Escape” From Poland and Germany
Ch. 19 -Immigration In Eretz Isroel
Epilog
A Look From The Distance Of Years On the Vilna Ghetto commander, Yaakov Gens
Was There A Rebellion In The Vilna Ghetto
Holocaust and Heroism Memorial Day
At “Massuah”, Tel Itzhak, 1969
(Speech written and read by Litman Mor)
Word of the survivors
At the National Assembly of the Holocaust and
Heroism Memorial Day, Jerusalem 1997
Words written by Litman Mor in the Condolence Book, on the day of assassination of PM Ytzhak Rabin
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