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111: 28: 1517:. While confined to the Vilna Ghetto, he organized and oversaw the creation and operation of a library in the Ghetto. He also played an active role in several of the ghetto's social welfare and cultural organizations. 1532:. The following day, he and almost all the other prisoners were forced to carry logs to a pile, spread them in a layer, lie down naked on them so they could be executed and burned in a massive pyre. The 1308: 1803: 395: 1828: 1823: 1333: 1737: 1595: 1808: 1241: 305: 1401: 487: 1465: 891: 1788: 1105: 158: 423: 405: 1346: 1432: 1408: 1361: 1302: 1235: 380: 1818: 1356: 390: 1391: 110: 721: 1671: 1458: 636: 1741: 1689: 676: 651: 1384: 1171: 799: 656: 621: 586: 130: 1176: 671: 1745: 1793: 1560: 1451: 616: 531: 1637: 1218: 551: 1798: 1379: 1073: 757: 641: 631: 596: 591: 335: 1783: 536: 1341: 991: 841: 681: 661: 561: 541: 1208: 179: 1813: 1437: 1327: 981: 666: 626: 546: 287: 774: 1585: 1280: 1158: 851: 556: 1553:
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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 1939-1944
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Kruk continued chronicling his experiences after he was transferred to the
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activist who kept a diary recording his experiences in the
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Index


Płock
Poland
Lagedi
Estonia
a series
The Holocaust

Jews
Auschwitz
Responsibility
Nazi Germany
Major perpetrators
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Joseph Goebbels
Heinrich Müller
Reinhard Heydrich
Adolf Eichmann
Odilo Globocnik
Theodor Eicke
Richard Glücks
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Rudolf Höss
Christian Wirth
Nazi Party
Gestapo
Schutzstaffel (SS)
Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV)
Einsatzgruppen

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