"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)

Translation from Hebrew: Yossef Rothman

Also Available in Hebrew: CLICK HERE

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To my wife Chayah
and my daughters Edith and Tamar
with love

� All rights are reserved to the author. Quoting, photographing, copying, any part of this book, by any mechanical or electronic means, is subject to the author's written consent. The contents, data, translation and editing are the the author's liability. Address: 14 Smuts BLW., Tel- Aviv, Israel Tel: 03-6055028

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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

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APPENDICES

• 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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PICTURES

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