Notes from the Valley of Slaughter
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06557-5 (ISBN)
Pick's journal covers the tumultuous late 1930s, the 1940–41 Soviet occupation of Lithuania, and the catastrophic German invasion and occupation, during which more than 90 percent of Lithuania's Jews were murdered. Pick was among a handful of Šiauliai Jewish physicians spared execution and allowed to work for the occupiers. Although Pick succumbed to illness in spring 1944, shortly before the ghetto was liquidated, his son Tedik buried the manuscript before fleeing the ghetto, retrieved it after liberation, and carried it with him to Israel.
Notes from the Valley of Slaughter is one of only a handful of diaries to survive the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry. Translated for the first time into English and extensively annotated, it conveys Pick's voice to a wider international audience for the first time.
Aharon Pick was born in Kėdainiai, Lithuania, in 1872. After graduating from the Sorbonne, he practiced medicine in Šiauliai, Lithuania. In 1941, along with his wife, Dvorah Tatz Pick, he was forced into the Šiauliai ghetto, where he worked in the ghetto hospital. He died of illness in June 1944. Gabriel Laufer, the son of two Holocaust survivors, was born in Budapest, grew up in Israel and currently lives in Charlottesville, VA. He earned a PhD in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and served as a professor at the Technion in Israel and at the University of Virginia until his retirement. He is the author of A Survivor's Duty which describes the survival of the author's father in the Holocaust and his own participation in Israeli wars. Born in 1950 and raised near New York City, Andrew Cassel spent 35 years writing and editing for US newspapers, covering business, politics, and culture. A graduate of Dartmouth College, in retirement he earned a master of liberal arts degree at the University of Pennsylvania, also studying Yiddish in the US and Europe. He has translated a range of historical and biographical essays while curating a website devoted to Jewish history in Lithuania and elsewhere.
Acknowledgments
Retrieving a Voice from the Ghetto
Notes on the Text
Part A
1. Before the Bolsheviks' Arrival (A Preface)
2. The Blosheviks in Lithuania
3. My Son's Admission to the Lithuanian University
4. On the Eve of War
5. The Start of the War
6. The Germans Enter Šiauliai
Part B
7. Afflictions
8. The Edicts
Part C
9. The Rules of the Ghetto
Part D
10. From My Diary
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Jewish Literature and Culture |
| Übersetzer | Gabriel Laufer, Andrew Cassel |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Maps; 14 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-253-06557-7 / 0253065577 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-06557-5 / 9780253065575 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich
