Book description
This astonishing chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of
Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944, was written under
conditions of mortal danger by a Ghetto inmate and secretary of the
Jewish Council. Through it all, Avraham Tory's overriding purpose was
to record the unimaginable events of those years and to memorialise
the determination of the Jews to sustain life in the midst of the Nazi
terror. It is a supreme achievement.
Martin Gilbert's masterly introduction presents these events against
the backdrop of the war in Europe and considers the crucial questions
of collaboration and resistance.
Avraham Tory is a lawyer in Tel Aviv and Secretary-General of the
International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.
Martin Gilbert is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. His
publications include The Holocaust: A HIstory of the Jews of Europe
During the Second World War.
Dina Porat is Senior Lecturer in Jewish HIstory, Tel Aviv University.
