kaunas

A diary detailing life in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944.

A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithuania, who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II by issuing visas against the orders of his superiors.

Holocaust survivor Zev Birger provides an account of his experiences first in the ghetto in Slobidka, and then as a laborer at the Dauchau/Kaufering concentration camp.

Contains reproductions of photographs, paintings and drawings, diaries, reports, letters, poems, and songs that document the lives of Lithuanian Jews who were forced by the Nazis into the Kovno Ghetto during World War II, and includes essays that discuss the experiences of the people of Kovno.