Ponary diary, 1941-1943 : a bystander's account of a mass murder

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Label

Ponary diary, 1941-1943 : a bystander's account of a mass murder

Title remainder

a bystander's account of a mass murder

Statement of responsibility

Kazimierz Sakowics ; edited by Yitzhak Arad

Creator

• Sakowicz, Kazimierz, 1894-1944

Contributor

• Arad, Yitzhak, 1926-

Subject

• HISTORY -- Holocaust
• Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Ethnic relations
• Atrocities
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
• World War (1939-1945)
• Ethnic relations
• Jews -- Persecutions -- Lithuania | Vilnius
• Diaries
• Electronic books
• 1939-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Sakowicz, Kazimierz, 1894-1944 -- Diaries
• Sakowicz, Kazimierz, 1894-1944
• Lithuania -- Vilnius
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania | Vilnius
• Jews -- Persecutions
• HISTORY -- General

Genre

• Diaries
• Electronic books

Language

• eng
• pol
• eng

Summary

About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius), present-day Lithuania, and surrounding townships were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary. Over a period of several years, Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who lived in the village of Ponary, was an eyewitness to the murder of these Jews as well as to the murders of thousands of non-Jews on an almost daily basis. He chronicled these events in a diary that he kept at great personal risk. Written as a simple account of what Sakowicz witnessed, the diary is devoid of personal involvement or identification with the victims. It is thus a unique document: testimony from a bystander, an 'objective' observer without an emotional or a political agenda, to the extermination of the Jews of the city known as 'the Jerusalem of Lithuania'. Sakowicz did not survive the war, but much of his diary did. Painstakingly pieced together by Rahel Margolis from scraps of paper hidden in various locations, the diary was published in Polish in 1999. It is here published in English for the first time

Member of

• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

940.53/18/094793

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

DS135.L52

LC item number

V5569413 2005eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography